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Fig. 19.14 Photos from the Khor area, courtesy of Peter
Scholle. ( a ) Aerial photo (view to south ) of southward pro-
grading shorelines. ( b ) Detail of back-barrier shoreline area
(view to southwest ), with numerous tidal creeks. ( c ) Close-up
of part of the shoreline (view to east ), which appears to be
spilling landward ( bottom ) over a creek. ( d ) Coarse sand and
gravel that make up the shoreline spillover deposits
Fig. 19.15 Remote sensing ( a ) and interpretive ( b ) image of
area near Mesaiid, Qatar Peninsula (Fig. 19.12 ). As further
north, this region includes a series of southward stepping
progradational beach ridges, bordered landward by sabkha
deposits (Remote sensing image copyright DigitalGlobe)
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