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Meaning of "shallow marine"

Shallow marine refers to the ecological or geological environment that is found in the shallow parts of the ocean or seas. It generally includes areas near the shoreline or continental shelf, characterized by relatively low water depth and specific biological and geological characteristics

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It was deposited on a shallow marine carbonate platform.
The depositional environment was most likely shallow marine.
This was quite a shallow marine environment.
The depositional environment has been interpreted as shallow marine.
Deposition occurred under shallow marine and estuarine conditions.
This shallow marine environment is home to the endangered manatee.
Sand or rocks in intertidal and shallow marine waters.
The shallow marine environments are not exclusively composed of siliciclastic or carbonaceous sediments.
It is composed dominantly of shallow marine sands.
Yet shallow marine environments account for by far the most fossils.
Fuscus primarily inhabits reefs in shallow marine habitats.
Also, many shallow marine environments are often associated with carbonate factory zones.
Kukersite was deposited in a shallow marine basin.
Especially in warm climates, shallow marine environments far offshore mainly see deposition of carbonate rocks.
It was formed in very favorable conditions in a shallow marine environment.

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They are found mainly in shallow marine environments or hyper-saline lakes.
The claystones of the formation were deposited in a shallow marine environment.
It was settled in paralic to shallow marine paleoenvironment, during the middle to late devonian.
Stromatolites are laminated mounds which form today in shallow marine water.
Deposition occurs in relatively shallow marine conditions under transgressing seas.
The resulting depression was probably occupied by a sequence of lakes or shallow marine environments.
The region was once a sheltered, shallow marine environment ideal for preserving skeletons.
The depositional environment of these rocks is postulated to be either shallow marine or terrestrial.
The sediments indicate a restricted shallow marine environment with drying-up periods that created evaporites.
The formation has been deposited in a fluvial to estuarine and shallow marine environment.
A shallow marine lower-cycle with rudist reefs in the northwest and continent-derived lignites in the northeast.
The impact site was possibly in a shallow marine environment.
Late holocene shallow marine environments of Europe 14.
Various types of structures form in shallow marine environments.
The shallow marine basin had already formed earlier ( Triassic ), even before Aconcagua arose as a volcano.
These formation have their shallow marine facies in common.
There are also characteristic mollusk fossils that indicate the area was dominately shallow marine.
These sedimentary rocks accumulated in shallow marine and terrestrial environments.
Most phosphate mining is of sedimentary phosphorite, a phosphorus-rich deposit formed under shallow marine conditions.
Contemporary examples can be found in shallow marine environments such as estuaries.
The surrounding rocks suggest that the stromatolites lived and were deposited in a shallow marine environment.
The formation has been deposited in a shallow marine environment in an oxygen-poor basin.
The shale has been linked to glacial meltwater nutrient enrichment of the shallow marine environment.
Theoretically, if the sea level fell sharply, shallow marine sediments would be exposed to oxidization.
The sandstones include good sedimentary structures and fossil traces which indicate a shallow marine environment.
It also occurs in adjacent seasonal wetlands, shallow marine waters and around some coastal islands.
The remainder of the Bass Formation accumulated in relatively warm shallow marine waters.
Summary, Studying area are characterized by shallow marine carbonate sedimentation during Late Cretaceous.
The seal Monachus monachus is a permanent resident of the shallow marine area.
GU5L5 was discovered in a shallow marine hydrothermal área in Vulcano, Italy.
These ichnospecies suggest that host corals lived in very shallow marine environments.
The Veldhoven Formation has a shallow marine (less than 200 meters deep) or beach facies.
Anhydrite indicates that the Eocene was marked by shallow marine conditions.
This lowering of sea level causes a reduction in shallow marine habitats, leading to biotic turnover.
The Matmor Formation contains fossils from a Jurassic equatorial shallow marine environment.

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