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Keywords: Inundated, Marshland, Traversed, Tides, Tolerant

Related Terms: Atoll, Bank, Bar , Bay, Estuarine, Fiord, Fjord, Foreshore, Headland, Lacustrine, Lagoon, Littoral, Neritic, Palustrine, Playa, Reef, Shelf, Shoal, Shore, Slough, Sound, Spit, Seamount, Tidal Flat, Littoral Zone, Barrier Reef, Estuaries, Fringing Reef, Tidal Wetlands, Sand Bar, Subtidal, Backshore, Barrier Beach, Salt Marsh, Pelagic Zone, Coastal Erosion, Intertidal Zone, Saltmarsh, Embayment, Barrier Island, Beach Nourishment, Mudflat, Tide Pool, Guyot, Sea Stack, Neritic Zone, Longshore Bar, Benthic Zone, Cuspate Foreland, Freshwater Marsh

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Same as TIDAL FLATS.

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Low, flat marshlands traversed by channels and tidal hollows, subject to tidal inundation; normally, the only vegetation present is salttolerant bushes and grasses.

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An extensive, nearly level marsh bordering a coast (as in a shallow lagoon, sheltered bay, or estuary) and regularly inundated by high tides; formed mostly of unconsolidated sediments (e.g. clays, silts, and/or sands and organic materials), and the resistant root mat of salt tolerant plants, a marshy tidal flat. Compare – Tidal Flat. (Schoeneberger and Wysocki, 2005; modified from Jackson, 1997).

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Low, flat, coastal marshlands traversed by channels and tidal hollows and subject to tidal inundation. Normally, the only vegetation present is salt tolerant.

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A low, flat marshland traversed by interlacing channels and tidal sloughs, and usually inundated by tides.

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