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6.4.2 Swamps/Marshes

Inlets and lagoonal areas may become isolated from the open water as the wave action and the currents deposit sediment. If a large supply of sediment enters these isolated areas, filling can occur very rapidly resulting in flat swampy and marshy terrain.


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Marsh and Offshore Bar
Marsh and Offshore Bar
Gilluly, J., A. C. Waters, and A. O. Woodford.
Principles of Geology.
W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1975.
Marsh and Offshore Bar  Strandplain Morphology  Barrier Reef  Submergence with barrier beaches  barrier beach 

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