Wash margin

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Two successive wash margins (centre and below right) comprising seaweed and eelgrass.

Close-up of wash margin on the beach at Cuxhaven

Ringstead Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom

A drift line or wrack line,

See also

References

^ "Watersnoodmuseum – Nationaal Kennis- en Herinneringscentrum Watersnood 1953".
^ ^a ^b ^c Leser (2005), p. 870.

Literature

Leser, Hartmut, ed. (2005). Wörterbuch Allgemeine Geographie, 13th ed., Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich,
ISBN 978-3-423-03422-7
.

External links

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Information on wash margin vegetation by the Wattenmeer Nature Conservation Station
What is the STRANDLINE?, durhambiodiversity.org.uk
Strandline Description (English), eunis.eea.europa.eu
Soil seed bank and driftline composition along a successional gradient on a temperate salt marsh, bioone.org
Page 9: "Setting: Intertidal Zones" in: Effects of Coastal Armoring on Sandy Beach Ecosystems, wa.water.usgs.gov

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