1. Tropical Lagoon Environments
Lagoons are typically a shallow body of marine water that may be brackish, normal, or hypersaline and do not have a major point source of fresh water input, such as a river, but do collect fresh water as it comes from the land through storm water runoff or small streams. The sediment that collects is finer-grained than near by higher-energy depositional environments. ... Consequently, the energy of lagoons is usually low or at least lower then near by high-energy environments. Good examples of this are the back-reef lagoons; moderate to high wave and current energies occur on the opposite si...
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