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Le Puits-Arabe | Volcanic coast

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View towards northeast. The position of the coastline - and therefore the size of the island - is determined by the equilibrium between episodic lava flows into the sea, and the more continuous coastal erosion. The trees seen in the eft portion of the image belong to the species Casuarina equisetifolia (filao).

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Created
on Monday 12 September 2016 by Martin Mergili
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5421 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license