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Exploring Coastal Environments: Discovering Alaba Lagoons and Abyssal Plains

Learn about Alaba lagoons, tidal flats, reefs, continental shelf, slope, rise, and abyssal plains in this comprehensive guide to coastal ecosystems. Understand the sediments, formations, and significance of each unique environment. Dive into the world beneath the waves!

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Exploring Coastal Environments: Discovering Alaba Lagoons and Abyssal Plains

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  1. What environment #2 By: Dwight Dher R. Alaba

  2. lagoons • A shallow body of brackish water that is located near the ocean coast. • Sediments found are sands, gravels, rocks. • website

  3. Tidal Flats • Wetlands that forms near the coast when mud from tides and rivers are deposited. • Sediments found are sand, gravels, pebbles, rocks. • website

  4. Reefs • Rocks or sandbars that resulted from abiotoic processes. • Sediments found are rocks, sand. • website • picture

  5. Continental Shelf • Extensions of each continents. It is undersea during the glacial periods • Sediments found are rocks, sands, gravels, pebbles. • Website • picture

  6. Continental slope and rise • Continental slope is below the shelf and the continental rise is below the slope. • Sediments found are rocks, sands, gravels, pebbles. • Website • Picture

  7. Abyssal Plain • The flat or slightly sloped plain that is located on the bottom seafloor mostly next to the oceanic trench. • Sediments found are sands. • Website • Picture

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