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The Whale Museum
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The Seamen's Church Institute
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The Fishing Vessel ACES HIGH in port, a coastal lobster boat
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Penobscot River mudflat at low tide showing pattern of tidal streams.
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Vertical slate on 700 Acre Island. Erosion of this material provides sedimentfor Philbrook Cove Beach.
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Pebble Beach on 700 Acre Island. This beach has been formed from glacialmaterial while the Philbrook Cove Beach, right around the corner, was formedfrom erosion of slate.
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Birch Island beach showing gradation of sediment from coarse pebbles to sandas one moves up from the shoreline. Seaweed is evident along rack lineshowing furthest extent of normal high tide. Wildflower seeds float in on algaeand take root helping p
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Birch Island glacial sculpted smooth rocky point with ospreys on pitch pine.
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Pillow basalts indicating location of former oceanic spreading center.
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Grindstone Point on Schoodic Head. Cobble beach lying between tabularoutcroppings of exfoliated granite.
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A fine example of glacial plucking showing direction of glacial ice motion fromleft to right in the image.
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Morse River Inlet showing tidal marsh with bedrock exposed on the periphery.
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Morse River Inlet showing tidal marsh showing prograding of the barrier spit.
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Mosquito Cove cobble beach showing progressive landward migration of shoreline.
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Glacial erratic boulder (white boulder in left center) trapped on erodinggranite shoreline.
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Harbor seals on Muscle Ridge Island.
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Philbrook Cove on 700 Acre Island.
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Philbrook Cove on 700 Acre Island.
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Tidal stream at low tide showing parallel ripple pattern in deeper areasversus hummocky pattern in shallower areas. Parallel ripples form perpendicular to tidal flow.
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Glacial cobble returned to land as kelp ripped out during storm and carried thecobble back to shore.
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