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The distribution and character of small-scale and mesoscale bedforms on the surface of a large tide-built sand ridge have been observed. Sand waves, class 1 and class 2 megaripples, and ripples are abundant. A histogram of bedform spacing is strongly bimodal, indicating that megaripples and sand waves comprise discrete populations. Ripples probably also comprise a discrete population, but the limit of resolution of the side-scan sonar system arbitrarily truncates the distribution; hence a third mode cannot be observed.
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Mann, R.G., Swift, D.J.P. & Perry, R. Size classes of flow-transverse bedforms in a subtidal environment, Nantucket Shoals, North American Atlantic shelf. Geo-Marine Letters 1, 39–43 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02463300
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