Estuaries
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| estuaries | a semi-enclosed area where fresh water and salty sea water meet and mix
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| Coastal Plain Estuaries | is formed when sea level rose at the end of the last glacial age
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| bar-built estuary | is formed when a barrier island or sand bar separates a section of the coast where fresh water enters
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| tectonic estuary | results from the sinking of land due to movements of the crust.
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| Fjords | is formed in a deep valley created by a retreating (melting) glacier
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| salt wedge | a layer of denser, saltier seawater that flows along the bottom in estuaries
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| tidal bore | a steep wave generated as high tides move up some estuaries and rivers
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| Euryhaline | an organism that can tolerate a wide range of salinities
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| stenohaline | organisms that can tolerate a narrow range of salinities
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| anadromous | marine fishes that migrate to fresh water to breed
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| catadromous | freshwater fishes that migrate to sea to breed
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| Mud Flats | a muddy bottom that is exposed at low tide
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| salt marshes | a grassy area that extends along the shores of estuaries and sheltered coasts in temperate and subpolar regions
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| mangroves | shrubs and trees that live along the seashore in tropical and subtropical regions and tolerate inundation by seawater
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| seagrasses | grass like flowering plants like eelgrass that are adapted to live at sea.
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