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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)