sistemas de cordões intercalados por depressões
English translation: systems of strands interspersed with lower areas
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| 4 | strips in between depressions |
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| 3 +1 | systems of strands interspersed with lower areas |
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strips in between depressions Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(geology) http://www.ncsu.edu/scilink/Brazil_description.htm The coastal plains might present themselves with quite varied extensions, depending on the retreat of the Crystalline's escarpments. Past marine levels have oscillated in such a way as to cause sedimentation in different terraces, which are testimony to this alternating depositing. By the action of the tides, the deposit of marine sediments has occurred in the form of sandy strips, with some older terraces. Behind these deposits, and between the strips, depressions forming freshwater marshes or swamps might occur. In the coastal plains' beach line, vegetation is adapted to the salty and sandy conditions under the tidal influences, and named halofila-psamofila, with reptilious herbaceous species of ample root systems. After this zone, over more stable strips, there is dense arboreal bushy vegetation, called jundu, with many terrestrial bromeliads. Its angular form is due to the abrasive action of sand particles on the buds facing the beach. It has an organic layer little developed, with the ground bromeliads performing the role of stabilizers of the sub-stratum and of retention of water and nutrients in the system. On the coast of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo there are thickets formed by arboreal and shrubby species, intercalated by uncovered soil. Over the sandy strips, depending on their age, there might be an established forest that is less exuberant than the Atlantic Forest, with similar flora, penetration of cerrado elements, few characteristic species, and many epiphytes. There are forests that are similar to the mountaintop forests in coastal escarpments, usually over more recent strips, with many Myrtaceae and terrestrial bromeliads. In marine terraces, the occurrence of temporarily flooded areas supporting marsh forests is common. Between the strips there are depressions that might be permanently humid, sustaining paludal forests, with few adapted arboreal species and many bromeliads over the drenched soil. |
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peer agreement (net): +1systems of strands interspersed with lower areas Explanation: Definition of 'strand' in Webster's International: 1: the land bordering a body of water : SHORE: as a (1) : the beach of the ocean, a sea, or an arm of the ocean (2) : **the land alternately covered and uncovered by the tide** -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 37 mins (2015-04-21 21:15:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Better to say 'depressions'. See: ttps://books.google.com/books?id=ZxwWAAAAYAAJ Edward Smith Wheeler - 1876 - Cape May County (N.J.) **The last elevation carried the shore line at least seventeen feet above where it ... and are supposed to have been formed during a former period of depression.** https://books.google.com/books?id=iJMXAQAAIAAJ William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1908 - West (U.S.) Ships- anchored in the harbor are often left stranded, and the bottom laid bare even ... towards **the centre of the depression draws the water away from the shore, ...** -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 39 mins (2015-04-21 21:16:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- www.ge-at.iastate.edu/glossary-of-geologic-terms/ Iowa State University berm A small terrace in the backshore area of the coast with its terrace facing ... blowout A **an irregular depression excavated by wind**, usually in previously ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 40 mins (2015-04-21 21:18:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://books.google.com/books?id=o8MrAAAAIAAJ The resulting shore line is known as a "shoreline of elevation,"- and is ... **Its irregular border was comparable to a shore line of depression** in so far as it was ... |
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