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Image number: 1281
Feature : bay
Grouping : coastal forms
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1999
Locality : Durban
Country : South-Africa
Region - tribe : KwaZulu-Natal
Physiographic region : South-East Africa
Notice : notice A bay is generally an area where sea currents depose sediments. Groynes enhance deposition and/or protect bay against temporary erosional currents. Indian Ocean.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 1281.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"