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Figure 8. No bluff with a ledge shoreline. A steep slope on the bedrock surface is not a bluff. On the Coastal Bluffs Maps, bluffs must be made of sedimentary material, generally with 3 feet or more relief. This shoreline type is very slow to change.


Last updated on October 6, 2005