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Andrew Durbin. MacArthur Park

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MacArthur Park

ANDREW DURBIN

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“Would it still be Miami Beach with foreign sand?” the Christian Science Monitor asked in 2007. In the next decade the question no longer mattered: only that sand had to get there, from some more stable elsewhere, since it wouldn’t be Florida. In 2009, the Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management released a report on the state of Miami Beach’s coastline that called for a renewed focus on beach nourishment, not only for purposes of tourism, but for hurricane safety, too. All but one “borrowing site” for sand had been permanently depleted, they wrote, and “new sources need to be identified” or the beach would revert to the pitiful, slender state it had reached before the first major nourishment that began in 1975 and ended in 1981.

But the beach had not always been there. The land on which Miami and Miami Beach now sit first appeared more than a hundred thousand years ago, shortly after the warmer, interglacial Eemian period ended and the oceans drained as the ice caps boomed again.

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