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salt-wedge estuaries (en)  

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  • Information Estuaries with a salt wedge: Seawater intrusion in an estuary as a wedge-shaped bottom layer which hardly mixes with the overlying fresh water layer. Salt wedges occur in estuaries where tidal motion is very weak or absent.

    Created: 9/6/21

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