Due to the changing sea levels, many different environments are represented in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, including offshore and near-shore marine habitats and coastal habitats like lagoons, estuaries and tidal flats.

Due to their enormous range, numbers, and density, distributional estimates are difficult to compare, but they clearly prefer higher latitudes and coastal areas over pelagic environments.

Due to the growing dependence on oil and gas, the total length of oil and gas pipelines in China has risen to 70 from 22 in 1997, stretching from oil and gas fields in western and northeastern regions to densely populated coastal areas in the east.

Due to Saracen attacks, in the 9th century Tharros was abandoned in favor of Oristano, after more than 1800 years of occupation ; Caralis, Porto Torres and numerous other coastal centres suffered the same fate.

Due to financial hardship, the Mackintoshes moved in 1923 to Port-Vendres, a Mediterranean coastal town in southern France with a warm climate that was a comparably cheaper location in which to live.

Due to the gentle slope of the coast, coastal lagoons are shallow.

Due to an abundance of vacant land for development and recent growth trends along the coastal areas, the city's population is expected to increase at a steady rate during the coming years to an estimated 22, 788 people by 2025.

Due to this location, Corregidor was fortified with several coastal artillery and ammunition magazines to defend the entrance of Manila Bay and the City of Manila from attacks by enemy warships in the event of war.

Due to the very flat topography, this causes the Gulf of Bothnia to withdraw several kilometers per century and has historically caused great problems to navigation and to the harbours of the coastal cities of the region.

Due to coastal erosion this is only five metres from the sea and is at threat from increased salinity.

Due to its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the forest is regularly shrouded in a coastal marine layer fog, contributing to a wet environment that encourages vigorous plant growth.

Due to its warm arid climate and geomorphological characteristics, the Savage Islands are exposed to strong coastal winds that reduce precipitation to less than 500 mm annually.

Due to the extensive coastal defences erected by the Germans to protect the installation from a sea-borne raid, it was believed that a commando raid from the sea would only incur heavy losses on the part of the attackers, and give sufficient time for the garrison at the installation to destroy the Würzburg radar set.

Due to the free market reforms of Deng Xiaoping leading to a rapidly growing middle and upper class, residents of Jiangyin along with other urban residents in Eastern coastal regions of China have become among the most wealthy in China.

Due to the generally rugged landscape of the island, many of the early settlements developed along the flatter coastal lands.

Due to its connection with a wider European area, road development suitably covers all needs and contributes to a balanced development of the coastal area and the Istrian interior.

Due to insufficient urban planning as well as institutional weaknesses on behalf of the City Council ( mainly due to a lack of proper financial planning ), some of the city's coastal areas are not in an ideal condition, with several areas illegally occupied by shops built along the coastline.

Due to the constant danger posed by marauding bands of Moros who plundered the coastal settlements and kidnapped a number of its inhabitants, the village heads soon got together and formed a junta.

Due to its coastal south west position, it is one of the sunnier locations in Wales.

Due to its coastal location, temperatures below or above are rare.

Due to the influence of coastal climate, Gimhae is the mildest region in Korea.

Due to its coastal situation, the whole of the peninsula is underlain by an extensive contiguous density stratified coastal aquifer, where a fresh water lens formed from meteoric water floats on top of intruding saline water from the coastal margins.

Due to the constant drought and flooding, the littoral zone experiences great disturbances.

Due to its great age, the geographical distribution of Magnoliaceae has become disjunct or fragmented as a result of major geologic events such as ice ages, continental drift, and mountain formation.

Due to rivers having faster and slower currents often running side by side, the fly can over take or be overtaken by the line, thus disturbing the fly's drift.

Due to this, groyne structures are usually used on shores with low net and high annual longshore drift in order to retain the sediments lost in storm surges and further down the coast.

Due to the seas very much ' surrounding ' the land the area sees a significant effect of the North Atlantic drift, which ensures that the land is cooled in the summer and warmed in the winter, producing a stabilising effect on the temperatures.

Due to continental drift, the area that is now northeast Alabama was located very close to the Equator at the time this limestone was forming.

Due to continental drift, the India Plate split from Madagascar and collided with the Eurasian Plate resulting in the formation of the Himalayas.

Due to the semi-arid climate and subsequent large amounts of sand, a perpetual annoyance to residents is the amount of dust blown about by the frequent winds.

Due to the emerging industry in the 19th century and the importance of roads and railways for the economy, highways and paved roads were constructed to replace transportation over sand and mud roads.

Due to the existence of sand dunes in the north part of the town, trees were planted on parts of those lands to prevent soil erosion.

Due to unusual geographical conditions and strong currents, the passage was constantly filling with sand and was completely blocked by the 12th century.

Due to high seasonal rainfall in January 2011 the potential for lahar and lava flow was raised due to the deposits of volcanic ash, sand and other ejected material that had built up.

Due to the flatness of the Delta, and the large tonnage of sand flowing into it from the Okavango River, the floor of the delta is slowly but constantly rising.

Due to BTW's metaphorical visualization of their model as a " sandpile " on which new sand grains were being slowly sprinkled to cause " avalanches ", much of the initial experimental work tended to focus on examining real avalanches in granular matter, the most famous and extensive such study probably being the Oslo ricepile experiment.

Due to the slowly dwindling supply of suitable donor cars, Baja Bugs have been greatly supplanted in recent years by tube-framed, purpose-built buggies known as sand rails.

Due to the fantastic white sand beaches and picturesque offshore islands, tourism is starting to become a larger part of the local economy.

Due to her silicon based sand form, Dust is assigned to a " Tough Skin " team of X-Men to defend Utopia against a vampire invasion force.

* Due to the low filtration rate, slow sand filters require extensive land area for a large municipal system.

Due to their easy access from the road and the overall proximity of Death Valley to Hollywood, these dunes have been used to film sand dune scenes for several movies including films in the Star Wars series.

Due to its localization on high mountains, this area is the least disturbed by humans and contains the most endemic species of all the zones. This páramo often has so much visible sand that it ’ s easily mistaken for a beach or desert, however there are many tiny, clumped or scattered plants that persist in this zone.