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current

May 17, 2019 by ldwhite3

Flow of water in a consistent direction. The term may apply to a moving mass of water within a larger water body (such as small currents along the coast or large ones like the Gulf Stream) or to the moving water of a whole stream.

climatology

May 17, 2019 by ldwhite3

coast

February 14, 2019 by ldwhite3

Land next to the sea, and the nearby water; the seashore

Coastline from Tennessee Valley Trail in Mill Valley, CA
Coastline from Tennessee Valley Trail in Mill Valley, CA

cross section

February 14, 2019 by ldwhite3

View of a slice through an object or the surface of the Earth; in geology, “cross section” most often refers to a vertical slice through the surface of the Earth that shows layers of rock

crosscut

September 11, 2017 by ldwhite3

When one geologic feature cuts across another, such as a fault cuts across layers of rock. The crosscutting feature must logically be younger than whatever it cuts across.                                                                                                                                                                                                          

clam

September 6, 2017 by ldwhite3

See bivalve

coral

May 26, 2017 by eclites

A marine invertebrate belonging to the Phylum Cnidaria, which also includes jellyfish and sea anemones. Colonial corals consist of large numbers of polyps, living in calcium carbonate skeletons that they collectively secrete. 

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