Marine Habitats
- Marine
habitats – The sedimentologist Francis Shepard classified coasts as primary or secondary. - Bay mud – Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles.
- Black smokers Hydrothermal vent
- Estuaries – An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
- Intertidal ecology – Intertidal ecology is the study of intertidal ecosystems, where organisms live between the low and high tide lines.
- Intertidal wetlands –
- Kelp forests
- Lagoons
- Biome#Marine biomes
- Marine habitats – The sedimentologist Francis Shepard classified coasts as primary or secondary.
- Mudflats
- Rocky shores –
- Salt marshes
- Seagrass meadows – Seagrasses are flowering plants from one of four plant families, all in the order Alismatales, which grow in marine, fully saline environments.
- Sponge reefs –
- Tide pools
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