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Tidal marsh

A tidal marsh is a type of marsh that is found along coasts and estuaries of which the flooding characteristics are determined by the tidal movement of the adjacent estuary, sea or ocean. According to the salinity of the flooding water, freshwater, brackish and saline tidal marshes are distinguished. Respectively, they may be classified into coastal marshes and estuarine marshes.

They are also commonly zoned into lower marshes (also called intertidal marshes) and upper or high marshes, based on their elevation with respect to the sea level.

In addition they may also be classified into back-barrier marshes, estuarine brackish marshes and tidal freshwater marshes, according to the degree of the influence of the sea level.

Usage examples of "tidal marsh".

Because the Salt Ponds are so remotea verdant pocket near the airport's runway, far from the Conch Train's viewmost tourists and many Key Westers have never visited the beautiful tidal marsh.

Ed was poling it through the invisible channels of a mainland tidal marsh.

They had off loaded the dinghy and Ed was poling it through the invisible channels of a mainland tidal marsh.

One had been a fantastic flying thing that they took by surprise as it emerged from a tidal marsh.

Tucker took the engine out of idle and picked his way out of the tidal marsh, back into the Bay.

The west coast of the Abacos glittered in the afternoon sun, pinkish-white beaches and palms, tidal marsh, a scrubby olive-green landscape with patches of pine trees standing up from the low bush.

It was there that the dike and tide gates had been built which allowed this tidal marsh to be drained.

Beyond the jungles and the bordering seas toward the pole stretched hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of tidal marsh.

The Passage is a long, narrow, blacktop road across a tidal marsh, but the brackish water floods at high tide, covering the road and making it impassable.