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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 |
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