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formation

In beach
As these join together, foredunes are being built, and, if the beach is well-supplied with sand in the right area, several rows of dunes will be formed. When the sand is abundant, dunes will shift to adjacent low-lying plains and may bury fertile soils, woods, and buildings.
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topography

In coastal landforms: Coastal dunes
…small sand accumulations will become foredunes, the seaward-most line of coastal dunes. It is in this fashion that a coast progrades, or grows seaward. Many barrier-island or strand-plain coasts exhibit numerous, essentially parallel dune ridges testifying to this type of growth.
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