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A sabkha (Arabic: سبخة) is a predominately coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of semiarid to arid climate. Sabkhas are gradational between land and intertidal zone within restricted coastal plains just above normal high-tide level. Within a sabkha, evaporite-saline minerals ...
Only about 26% of their original extent remaining, Coastal Swamp Oak Forests generally occur on light or alluvial soil on coastal flats, floodplains, drainage lines, lake margins, wetlands and estuarine fringes where soils are at least at times saturated, marshy or overflowed. Some may occur on coastal dune swales or flats. [1]
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, [1] [2] are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers. A global analysis published in 2019 suggested that tidal flat ecosystems are as extensive globally as mangroves , covering at least 127,921 km 2 ...
The Western Gulf coastal grasslands (Spanish: Pastizales costeros del Golfo Occidental) are a subtropical grassland ecoregion of the southern United States and northeastern Mexico. [2] [3] It is known in Louisiana as the "Cajun Prairie", Texas as "Coastal Prairie," and as the Tamaulipan pastizal (Spanish: Pastizal Tamaulipeco) in Mexico.
Nov. 3—MAGGIE VALLEY — The legal struggle for control of the former Ghost Town in the Sky property took another turn this week as the attorney for defendant Coastal Development LLC filed new ...
The restaurant. Benny’s Coastal Kitchen takes up the entirety of the bottom floor of the building, open-concept style, under a soaring ceiling. A bar with high-top tables is on one side, and the ...
Coastal plains can form in one of two ways; some begin as a continental shelf, a flat piece of land located below sea level, and are created when the ocean level falls, exposing the land. Others develop when river currents carry sediment into the ocean, which is deposited and builds up over time until it forms a coastal plain.
An Argentinian waiter prosecutors are looking to charge in connection with One Direction star Liam Payne's death admitted to using cocaine with the singer — but insists he was not the drug dealer.