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Title: 7a-8a sedenvi
Description: sedimentary environments
Total Flash Cards: 8
Created: 02/03/2010 11:12:09
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| a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out |
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| The process caused by running water usually in the form of rivers or streams |
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Lacustrine Envirnment
Found in, or pertaining to, lakes or ponds, or growing in them; as, lacustrine flowers. |
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a landscape or region that receives almost no precipitation Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres (10 in) per year
Desert |
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Swamps
Has lots of moss and trees, shallow bodies of water with little sediments of rocks (algae) |
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Delta
a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water; "the Mississippi River delta"; "the Nile ...
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Beaches and Barrior Islands
Sand, shores, sediemnts of rock and sea shells |
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