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sedimentary environments
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Geology
Undergraduate 1
02/03/2010

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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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