Beloved beaches were washed offshore by Cyclone Alfred – but most of this sand will return

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twitter: 5 X users
facebook: 2 Facebook pages

reddit: 1 Redditor
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Title	Beloved beaches were washed offshore by Cyclone Alfred – but most of this sand will return
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.rk7mruu5y
Authors	Leon, Javier
Abstract	Huge volumes of sand have been swept offshore by Cyclone Alfred’s waves, leaving beaches and dunes looking very different.

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Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	2	40%
United States	1	20%
France	1	20%
Zimbabwe	1	20%

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Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	4	80%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	1	20%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 119. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 June 2025.

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