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Barrier island and Virginia Barrier Islands

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Difference between Barrier island and Virginia Barrier Islands

Barrier island vs. Virginia Barrier Islands

Barrier islands are coastal landforms and a type of dune system that are exceptionally flat or lumpy areas of sand that form by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast. The Virginia Barrier Islands are a continuous chain of long, thin, low-lying, sand and scrub barrier islands separated from one another by narrow inlets and from the mainland by a series of shallow marshy tidal bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula.

Similarities between Barrier island and Virginia Barrier Islands

Barrier island and Virginia Barrier Islands have 3 things in common (in Unionpedia): Chesapeake Bay, Inlet, Outer Banks.

Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia.

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Inlet

An inlet is an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow, such as a small bay or arm, that often leads to an enclosed body of salt water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon, or marsh.

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Outer Banks

The Outer Banks (OBX) is a string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.

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Barrier island and Virginia Barrier Islands Comparison

Barrier island has 70 relations, while Virginia Barrier Islands has 37. As they have in common 3, the Jaccard index is 2.80% = 3 / (70 + 37).

References

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