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This set of satellite images show Cape Point at Cape Hatteras National Seashore just to the East of North Carolina. What is depicted in these images is the creation of a new island due to the movements and changes in the currents and wave energy of the water surrounding and hitting the land. As the waves move around the tip of this island they lose energy and deposit sediment that they were carrying. This causes a build up of sand and eventually the creation of an island. The scale of the island can be judged off of the size of the roads as well as what appears to be a city or town of some sort on the land to the North. What is important about this picture is the time frame in which it happened. This type of land creation normally takes an extremely long time. With the satellite imaging, however, we can see and begin to speculate as to why this occurred in such a rapid manner. By tracking the events around this area between the dates of the picture we can better understand what happened and how influential different types of weather and natural phenomena are when it comes to the creation of the offshore sand islands, or just how the effect the land in general.
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