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1. What type of shoreline feature is Drakes Estero (located near the center of the map)? Limant our spit 2. Point Reyes, located in the bottom-left corner of the map, is a headland undergoing severe wave erosion. What type of feature is Chimney Rock, located off the shore of Point Reyes? 3. Several depositional features near Drakes Estero are related to the movement of sediment by longshore currents, What type of depositional feature is labeled A on the map? 4. Follow Limantour Spit from its western tip at the mouth of Drakes Estero eastward to where it joins the mainland. Use an arrow to mark the direction of the longshore current that produced Limantour Spit. 5. What geologic feature is Estero de Limantour? 6. Limantour Spit may eventually extend across the entire mouth of Estero de Limantour. If the west end of Limantour Spit reaches the mainland, will it be called a tombolo or a baymouth bar? 7. Locate the bench mark (BM) with an elevation of 552 feet on Point Reyes. If you descended from that bench mark southward to the shore of the Pacific, what landform would you cross? 8. What feature indicates that the headland called Point Reyes has recently been uplifted? 9. List at least two features on the map that are characteristic of submergent coasts ---similar to the Atlantic coast.

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