Estuarine Sedimentation, Figure 2 Idealized facies models of estuarine systems, showing basic subdivisions between (a) wavedominated and (b) tide-dominated estuaries. Wave-dominated estuaries exhibit the typical tripartite pattern, with a middle central
basin separating areas dominated by marine (seaward) and fluvial (landward) processes. The distinction is less clear in tidedominated estuaries, where the equivalent to the central basin is represented by a meandering channel in a zone with mixed energy.
(Modified after Emery and Myers (1996)).
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basin separating areas dominated by marine (seaward) and fluvial (landward) processes. The distinction is less clear in tidedominated estuaries, where the equivalent to the central basin is represented by a meandering channel in a zone with mixed energy.
(Modified after Emery and Myers (1996)).
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