How To Use Salt marsh In A Sentence
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Brackish marsh species include giant cordgrass (Spartina cynosuroides), salt marsh bulrush, common three-square, soft-stem bulrush, broadleaf cattail, arrowhead, spider-lily, salt reedgrass, reed and arrow arum.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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Other common salt marsh plants include black rush, saltwort, marsh lavender and marsh elder.
Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island
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Common Name: Groundsel tree; Salt marsh elder; Sea myrtle, groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling, Eastern Baccharis,
Find Me A Cure
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The coastal villages where the salt makers lived stand on islands or peninsulas of firm ground, with marshes and fens on their inland side and salt marshes on the seaward.
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Mark Doty, whose Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won in its category, noted that he and his partner, the writer, Paul Lisicky, had been recently married in a salt marsh in Truro, Massachusetts.
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Wetland habitats include freshwater marsh, salt marsh, riverine, lacustrine, palustrine, open bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida
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Land being reclaimed from salt marsh was once again covered by the storming high tides.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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At Turkey Point in the sandy berms out in the salt marsh, large stands of the non-native Teesdalia nudicaulis were noted in bloom.
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In the loose, silty soil of a salt marsh, the stream may be made to do most of the work of making its new bed, by constructing temporary "jetties," or other obstructions to its accustomed flow, which shall cause its current to deposit silt in its old channel, and to cut a new one out of the opposite bank.
Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
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Those ponds once hosted vegetation like cordgrass, gumplant and salty, bitter pickleweed, which in turn provide homes for rails and the salt marsh harvest mouse, also listed as endangered.
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The cycling route then leads you to a narrow path sandwiched between the turquoise, sun-drenched Atlantic Ocean and salt marshes homing rare sea birds.
Freewheeling Around Europe
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These pastures extended over thousands of acres of salt marsh, and in these pastures the horses were reared, hence the name they acquired, "marsh tackies.
Memoirs of a southerner, 1840-1923,
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Sand dunes, salt marsh and grazing meadows.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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Periwinkle snails ordinarily live in ecological harmony with salt marshes, eating only dead cordgrass and a fungus that grows on the plants.
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Marsh vegetation consists mainly of cattail and sedges (Scirpus americana and Carex sp.), with salt marsh cordgrass occurring along creek banks.
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Comprises seven main vegetation types: closed forest including rain forest and tall eucalypt forest dominated by satinay and brushwood; blackbutt forest; scribbly gum and wallum banksia communities; communities of wet sites often dominated by Melaleuca spp.; coastal communities; Callitris forest and woodlands; and mangrove and salt marsh.
Fraser Island, Australia
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The place fascinated me - narrow country roads, little lost villages, great shingle beaches and lonely salt marshes.
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During migration and winter, they are coastal, foraging on mudflats, salt marshes, estuaries, and coastal pools.
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The coastal villages where the salt makers lived stand on islands or peninsulas of firm ground, with marshes and fens on their inland side and salt marshes on the seaward.
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He was the syndic of the lessees of the royal salt marshes of Peccais, an integral part of the gabelle.
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The upper estuary has a single main channel that meanders through extensive fresh and salt marshes.
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Land being reclaimed from salt marsh was once again covered by the storming high tides.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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Sand dunes, salt marsh and grazing meadows.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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Most mainland and island salt marshes are grazed by cattle or sheep.
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Conversely, under the influence of southerly winds, the sea invaded the coastal zone of the deltaic platform, infilling the salt marshes and lagoons.
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The fringe of salt marshes that remains commonly has salt grass (Distichlis spicata), salt bush (Atriplex patula), pickleweed (Salicornia virginica) and seaside arrowgrass (Triglochin maritimum), among others.
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington
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They inhabit salt marshes near the sea, and are able to seal the shell with the operculum and so survive dry periods buried in mud.
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They generally prefer open country and can be found in habitat from salt marshes at sea level to areas of alpine tundra at high elevation.
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During migration and winter, snipes can also be found in salt marshes, estuaries, and other mucky areas.
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The salt marshes support cord grass, marsh samphire and sea purslane.
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His servant for the sake of His name should go unpunished; but quickly did he bring on them his deserved wrath, inasmuch as for the wickedness of them who dwelt therein the Lord converted their fruitful land into a salt marsh; and the sea, with the foreflowing of an unwonted tide, covered it, and, that it might even for ever be unhabitable, changed the dry land into a plashy lake.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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Crommet Creek has prolific knotweed, salt marsh gerardia, dwarf glasswort, four-toed salamanders and hog-nosed snakes; all rare species in the state.
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
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Salicornes (glasswort in English) are these wild little plants that grow in salt marshes.
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The restoration of a habitat of salt marsh grasses and shallow estuarine waters along the park's edge allows visitors the opportunity to appreciate the area's marine ecology and wildlife.
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Coastal migrants can often be found along tidal creeks, salt marsh edges, and mudflats, rarely on sandy ocean beaches.
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It is usually found in saturated soils and thus colonizes a range of habitats including marshes, fens, shallow lakes and salt marshes.
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Comprises seven main vegetation types: closed forest including rain forest and tall eucalypt forest dominated by satinay and brushwood; blackbutt forest; scribbly gum and wallum banksia communities; communities of wet sites often dominated by Melaleuca spp.; coastal communities; Callitris forest and woodlands; and mangrove and salt marsh.
Fraser Island, Australia
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I found a lesser yellowlegs in the salt marsh once, had-a busted beak and fishing line tangled around one wing and a leg.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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Salt marshes occur here and there in protected inlets, their lower parts dominated by creeping saltmarsh grass Puccinellia phryganodes, the upper parts by Pacific silverweed Potentilla egedii.
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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The frequent salt marshes that are found at the water's edge contain such species as saltmarsh cord grass, marsh meadow grass, spike grass, wild barley, sea lavender and sea plantain, all of which are resistant to the salty water.
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Salt marshes form in shallow, quiet water, where the water is salty and still enough for the suspended particles to settle to the bottom.
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He had ninety-six acres to leave to his three sons, including hayfields in thirty-seven locations, from salt marsh to upland fields.
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Here tens of thousands of semi-palmated sandpipers and other shorebirds feed on the rich salt marshes that dominate the landscape.
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A whitethroat flies out over the salt marsh from its grassed nesting bank on the most recent seawall, singing its dry ratchet song over the slippery green ooze; a redshank agitated by a marsh harrier towers inland over emerald wheat fields calling its bleak mud-flat alarm.
A Year on the Wing
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In salt marshes along the shore and on the sea walls there are now large clumps of sea lavender.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost all of the salt marsh habitat associated with Padilla Bay was diked and drained before 1900 for farm land.
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington
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The word kavir is Persian for salt marsh.
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During the past six years, salt marshes in the southeastern United States - in Georgia and Louisiana especially - have experienced unprecedented die-offs.
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These plants, known as halophytes, include a large taxonomic variety and occupy diverse habitats, from extremely dry to temporarily waterlogged sites or salt marshes.
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Sand dunes, salt marsh and grazing meadows.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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The site's extensive salt marshes are dominated by a mixture of saltmarsh cordgrass, salt grass, black needlerush, sea ox-eye, glasswort and sea lavender.
North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
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The salt marshes act as barriers between the sea and land.
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The beach backs on to a lake and a salt marsh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Salt marshes cover the central belt, where there are also large phosphate deposits.
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And that that line now stretching from the rig, to the spill, to an asphalted salt marsh, to a dead industry, to a torn family is likewise clearer.
Wallace J Nichols: It's All Connected, Redux
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Trapped underwater, a female salt marsh-dwelling wolf spider (seen in an undated photo)--one of 120 in a recent experiment (full story)--is on the verge of drowning, and "resurrection.
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The bay includes salt marsh, shallow and open water, tidal channels, mudflats and numerous islands, and a freshwater pond.
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Sea lavender lay in purple mats on the salt marshes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl.
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Ospreys live near rivers, estuaries, salt marshes, lakes, reservoirs, and other large bodies of water.
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It is true, that for the new salt-work near the battery of Araya, the seawater is received into pits, as in the salt marshes of the south of France; but in the island of Margareta, near Pampatar, salt is manufactured by employing only fresh water, with which the muriatiferous clay has first been lixiviated.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Salt marshes are the most prevalent types of tidal marshes and are characterized by salttolerant plants such as smooth cordgrass, saltgrass, and glasswort.
Wetland
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You play over a salt marsh, or bayou, from tee to green.
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(Low tide exposes the soft mud of the salt marsh.
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Chezzetcook Inlet on the Eastern Shore is an attractive body of water with extensive salt marshes and mudflats, but it has a problem.
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As an example of such useless lands , the court referred to a prior case salt marsh.
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Living among creeks, lagoons, and salt marshes makes fishing and the salt trade part of everyday life in the area.
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This area is surrounded by sandy plains and salt marshes.
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Its mud-flats, sand dunes and salt marshes attract an array of unusual birds, which accounts for the number of twitchers with binoculars and long-lens cameras on the island.
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The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.
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This is a region dotted with Chotts, lakes and salt marshes that expand and subtract with the seasons, attracting vast flights of birds as well as herds.
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Coastal migrants can often be found along tidal creeks, salt marsh edges, and mudflats, rarely on sandy ocean beaches.
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The beach backs on to a lake and a salt marsh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Land being reclaimed from salt marsh was once again covered by the storming high tides.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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Land being reclaimed from salt marsh was once again covered by the storming high tides.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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Peter chose a neap, but the north wind blowing straight down the open mouth of the Wash has pushed water higher up the salt marsh and is holding it there longer than usual.
A Year on the Wing
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Once or twice they plashed through tenuous streams trickling down through the salt marshes to the sea.
His Disposition
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I suppose the bountifulness of this place is because there are three distinct habitats—first you have the salt marsh, with its marsh samphire, sea aster, sea blite and sea purslane," he says.
Modern Hunter-Gatherers
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It is a rich mosaic of savanna grassland, thickets and woodlands; grasslands: low-lying, hygrophilous and floodplain; sedge swamps, freshwater reed and papyrus swamps; riverine woodlands, swamp forests and forested dunes; the lake with its uniquely variable salinity regime;, underwater macrophyte beds, saline reed swamps, salt marshes and mangroves; rocky and sandy shores, coral reefs and submarine canyons.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.
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Some of these inlets lead to salt marshes and estuaries which give refuge to many other coastal birds, especially waders.
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Many thousands of wintering wildfowl feed and roost among the country's estuaries and salt marshes.
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Some scientists suspect the mammal, believed to be a rare female sei whale, became stranded and died after an abnormally high tide carried it to a salt marsh.
Whale Found Beached In Grassy England Field (VIDEO)
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The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.
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Mostly these long-term anoxia-tolerant species inhabit bogs, wet marshlands, pools, river banks, and salt marshes or else are accustomed to survive long periods under a closed ice-layer.
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In salt marshes along the shore and on the sea walls there are now large clumps of sea lavender.
Times, Sunday Times
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The intertidal marsh in North Inlet is dominated by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), while the high marsh community contains a mix of species, including smooth cordgrass, black needlerush, sea oxeye, salt grass, salt hay, salt marsh fimbristylis, glassworts, marsh elder and others.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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I use a spiderman rod to catch spot and other small baitfish from the docks and salt marshes.
The Barbie Rod Challenge
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Easy paddling along 30 miles of marked water trails takes you through a 2,900-acre salt marsh that is abundant with wildlife - snowy egrets, diamondback terrapins and herons, along with bluefish, rockfish, sea trout and flounder.
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ÂAnd that that line now stretching from the rig, to the spill, to an asphalted salt marsh, to a dead industry, to a torn family is likewise clearer.
Wallace J Nichols: It's All Connected, Redux
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Then, at the refuge, I saw a snowy owl perched on a hay staddle in the salt marsh.
Archive 2009-02-01
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You can visit all but three of the islands and paddle your heart out through preserved salt marsh on the eastern shores, where you might see ospreys, pelicans, egrets, or a bald eagle.
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In salt marshes along the shore and on the sea walls there are now large clumps of sea lavender.
Times, Sunday Times
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In salt marshes along the shore and on the sea walls there are now large clumps of sea lavender.
Times, Sunday Times
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This loss of vegetation cover exposes the sediments of the salt marshes, which have become hypersaline (salinities exceeding 3.2) as a result of increased evapotranspiration.
Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
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Like the refugees and renegades who slunk away in the salt marshes of the Adriatic and builded the palaces of powerful Venice on her deep-sunk piles, so these wretched hunted blacks builded power until they became masters of the mainland, controlling traffic and trade-routes, compelling the bushmen for ever after to remain in the bush and never to dare attempt the salt-water.
CHAPTER X
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Sand dunes, salt marsh, scrub.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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Mark Doty, whose Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won in its category, noted that he and his partner, the writer, Paul Lisicky, had been recently married in a salt marsh in Truro, Massachusetts.
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The first wave occurs five to seven days after the flooding event and consists of "floodwater" mosquitoes, which include salt marsh and pastureland mosquitoes, usually more of an annoyance than a disease threat.
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