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Lagoon
Body of water that usually ends at the shoreline or by corals |
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Tidal Flats
A flatland found near the surface of water that is constantly covered and uncovered by tidal waves |
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Continental Shelf
Sand, different types of rock and other structures found near the shoreline |
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Alluvial Fan: A fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing strem flattens, slows, and spreads.
Their sediment type is coarse and fan sediments that are poorly sorted are found here. |
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Abbyssal Plain
Plains located very deep in ocean basin and has many sloping areas. |
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Fluvial Environment: An evnvironment where river processess are dominant |
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Slope and Rise
Both found underwater and located by abyssal and continental slope |
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Desert: A region arid because of little rainfail that it supports only little and widely spaced vegetation or no vegation at all.
Sediment is rounded and fine-grained |
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Swamps: A tract of wet, spongy land, often haviing a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation
Sediment is full of Nitrogen and phosphorous that is released from water. |
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Reefs: A strip or ridge of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of water.
composed of wet sediment that is fine grained, also sandy |
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Beaches/Barrier Islands: Any low sandy island that is paralled to the mainland and protects it from storms.
Sediment comes from other types of water bodies and is either fine/coarse grained. |
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Laclustrine Environment: Larger lakes, that move back and forth in response to the major climate cycles or opening and closing of outlets due to glaciation.
Lacustrine sediments are thought to have been derived from a series of saline lakes.
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Barrier Islands - Any low sandy island that is parallel to the mainland and protects it from storms
Sediment comes from other types of water bodies and is either fine or coarse grained.
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