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New York, July , pp. In , Shinnecock Inlet created this fourth barrier island. Cupsogue Beach County Park is located on the western end of the island. The inlet created a geographic oddity whereby the Town of Brookhaven actually has jurisdiction on land immediately west of the village of West Hampton Dunes although Brookhaven land access to it involves a nearly 20 mile drive through Southampton.
Shinnecock Inlet is the easternmost of five major inlets [3] connecting bays to the Atlantic Ocean through the narrow mile-long barrier islands that stretch from New York City to Southampton, New York on the south shore of Long Island. The inlet was formed by the Great Hurricane of which killed several people when it permanently broke through the island in Hampton Bays, New York. The inlet is almost directly lined up with the Shinnecock Canal between Shinnecock Bay and the Peconic Bay and saves miles for boaters going to the open Atlantic.
Consequently, management has been geared to keep the inlet dredged and open. However, maintenance of the inlet has been controversial on grounds that it causes beach erosion on Fire Island.
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May There are protected dunes located all around. To help keep the dunes intact, you must stay off of them and only take marked trails between Dune Road and the beach. On the north side of the beach, you can often spot seals playing in the calmer waters.
The Piping Plover, a once plentiful seabird found across Long Island, has a rapidly decreasing population due to development and is a federally protected species. However, you can still spot them nesting at this beach, as they have done for thousands of years.
There are several public facilities near the beach parking lot including restrooms, showers, and a concession stand. The continental shelf offshore of the central Atlantic Coast is a thick wedge of sand, silt, and clay sediments, thinner near the coast and thickening near where the continental shelf drops off sharply into the Atlantic abyssal plain.
Heavier sand and gravel sediments were generally deposited near the coastline, while lighter silt and clay sediments drifted farther offshore toward the edge of the continental shelf.
The continental shelf off the Mid-Atlantic Coast is large, encompassing roughly as much area as the Atlantic Coastal Plain. At its outer margins, the shelf dips sharply downward at the shelf break, and the bottom continues down as the continental slope until it bottoms out at the Atlantic abyssal plain.
The gentle slope of the continental shelf off the Mid-Atlantic Coast and the moderate tidal ranges were critical to the formation and later landward migration of barrier islands. Long barrier islands cannot form on steeply sloping bottoms or in areas where the daily tide range exceeds about 10 feet. The character of the East Coast changes abruptly north of New York Harbor and Long Island, due to the effects of multiple glacial periods that reached their southernmost extent in the area.
The northern coastal plain sediments have not entirely disappeared in the glaciated coastline, but in places they are buried well below more recent surface glacial deposits. Published by Yale University Press in
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