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Salt marsh is a wetland with halophytic
vegetation (tolerant to sea water). Salt
marshes develop around estuaries and on the
sheltered side of sand and shingle spits.
Salt marshes usually have a network of creeks
and drainage channels by which tidal waters
enter and leave the marsh.
Subject by: Andrew Longhorn