Many of Maine's beaches are covered with cobblestones, but here powerful ocean storms have assembled them into a massive seawall. As the waves break, they scour rocks from the base of the beach and carry them up on the shore. As the tide rises, the waves pile the stones higher and higher. When the tide recedes it leaves the larger, heavier stones at the top and drops the smaller, lighter stones down the slope.
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place, an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, then returned."Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea
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