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Explain how sandbars in the ocean are formed.

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Water brings sand and other sediment to the surface and creates a strip of land that lays between water.

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Answer:

Sandbars begin forming underwater. As waves break, this pulls material from the shoreline, migrating further into the ocean. During heavy storms, large waves can build sandbars far from shore, until they rise above the water's surface.

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