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Salt Marshes
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Salt Marshes
- Just like marshes further inland, salt marshes are also wetlands. Salt water marshes occur in places where the land meets the sea, such as barrier islands and other coastal areas.
Reviewer: K. Mortensen 
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Diamondback Terrapin
- This terrapin is the only North American emydid adapted for life in brackish and salt water. It is a strong, fast-swimming turtle with large hind limbs. Females are bigger than males.
Reviewer: K. Mortensen
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Mud Flats
- Mud flats (also known as tidal flats) are found next to salt marshes. Twice each day, water flows in and out with the tides, filling or draining the flat.
Reviewer: K. Mortensen
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Estuaries - Where Rivers Meet the Sea
- An estuary is a partially enclosed body of water where incoming seawater is mixed with fresh water coming from the land. Examples of estuaries include bays, sounds, salt marshes, mangrove forests, mud flats, swamps, inlets, and sloughs.
Reviewer: K. Mortensen
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What Are Freshwater Wetlands?
- The term "wetlands" encompasses a wide variety of aquatic habitats including swamps, marshes, bogs, prairie potholes, flood plains, and fen.
Reviewer: K. Mortensen
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The Causes of Tides
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- Twice daily the Pacific Ocean intrudes on the shoreline to flood its bays and estuaries. It inundates mud flats and marshes, raises water levels, and surges landward with sufficient force to reverse the seaward currents of rivers and creeks. Salt water mi...
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Salt Lake City Public Library - Home Page
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- Home page of the Salt Lake City Public Library, online catalog, and web resources
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American Alligator
- Alligator mississippiensis
Endangered
This reptile of the coastal marshes and inland waters of the southeastern United States is considered an endangered species. Relentless hunting for hides reduced the numbers drastically in the 1960s until s...
Reviewer: J. Nicol
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Excretory System
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- student report on this important system of the human body. The job of the excretory system is to remove various produced by the body. The removal is known as excreation. It is important for the body to remove these various waste, also known as toxic, beca...
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