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Miami Beach -- The EndPoint
- "Miami Beach is the end of East Florida's barrier island chain and an example of the endpoint of coastal development -- a completely urbanized barrier island... Only shoreline armoring can hold the island in place, and only artificial beach fill maintains a beach that is unlike the quartz-rich sand that attracted the first tourists to this island. The sand supply is an ever-diminishing resource coming from ever more distant sources at ever-increasing prices." - excerpt from the book, Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches, edited by Orrin H. Pilkey and William J. Neal, Duke University Press, 2004, pg. 232.
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