Beaches and River Banks (72)

From Anderson et al. (1976):
Beaches are the smooth sloping accumulations of sand and gravel along shorelines. The surface is stable inland, but the shoreward part is subject to erosion by wind and water and to deposition in protected areas.

A river bank will appear gray when gravel or light brown when sand at the edge of a stream in the NAIP imagery. The VMP orthophotos display river banks as white where sand is located or light gray in locations dominated by gravel.