Landscapes associated with mudflats & salt marshes- slides

• Mudflats


  Develop on sheltered shorelines not exposed to powerful waves, usually located on estuaries or behind barrier islands
• Salt marshes


  Develop overtime from mudflats
• Mudflat development into salt marsh

  1. Stage 1

  2. Stage 2

  3. Stage 3

  4. Stage 4
• Spartina


  • Most dominant vegetation on tidal flats in the British Isles

  
• Landscapes associated with mudflats and salt marshes
• Geog Dept 2016
• Erosional Questions: