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Fire Island inlet, Long Island, New York, and up to 8 km east of the inlet under Fire Island. Present location of Fire Island inlet is long. 73°18‱ W and lat. 40°38‱ N (Fig. 9-1). The inlet is 4.8 km long and 1.1 km wide at present; its long axis trends in an east-west direction. Maximum depth: 10 meters.
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Kumar, N., Sanders, J.E. (1975). Inlet Sequence Formed by the Migration of Fire Island Inlet, Long Island, New York. In: Ginsburg, R.N. (eds) Tidal Deposits. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88494-8_9
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