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Sedimentary Environment Flashcards
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Geology
Undergraduate 1
02/03/2010

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it is body of bracklish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed barrier beach.
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a marshy or muddy area that is alternately covered and un covered by the rise and fall of the tide.
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Rock or sandbar or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water
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 A gently sloping submerged portion of the continental margin extending from the shoreline to the continental slope.
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the steep gradient that lends to deep ocean floor and marks the seaward edge of the continenttal shelf.
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very level area of the deep ocean floor usually lying at the foot of the continental rise.
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