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Title: 8b-9 Sed Envi Cards

Description: flashcards for sed enviroment

Total Flash Cards: 14

Created: 02/03/2010 12:22:32

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place with shallow water that seperates the sea from sandy dunes
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Alluvial Fan - a fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads typically at the exit of a canyon onto a flatter plane.
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Fluvial Envi. - an environment where rivers or water bodies flow through.
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Lacustrine Envi. - a system of inland wetlands and deep-water habitats associated with freshwater lakes and reservoirs.
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Deserts - a region arid because of little rainfall that it supports only little and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.
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Swamps - a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation.
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Deltas - A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.
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Barrier Islands - Any low sandy island that is parallel to the mainland and protects it from storms
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tideland that is flat and often muddy or marshy
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the part of a continent that is under shallow water
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a steep slope that seperates the shelf and a ocean basin
where the continental slope and the ocean florr transition
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 a large area of extremely flat or gently sloping ocean floor just offshore from a continent, at depths of 13,000-20,000 feet