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A drift line or wrack line,
also known as a wash margin
[Leser (2005), p. 870.] or wash fringe
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is an area of the shore on which material is deposited or washed up. It often runs along the margin of a waterbody and there can be several bands due to variations in water levels. As a result of the richness of nutrients that occur in such wash fringes,
ruderal species
A ruderal species is a plant species that is first to colonize disturbed lands. The disturbance may be natural for example, wildfires or avalanchesor the consequences of human activities, such as construction ( of roads, of buildings, mining, e ...
frequently occur here, that, for example, on the
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...
coast consist of
grassleaf orache and
sea kale.
See also
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High water mark
A high water mark is a point that represents the maximum rise of a body of water over land. Such a mark is often the result of a flood, but high water marks may reflect an all-time high, an annual high (highest level to which water rose tha ...
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Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range. This area can include several types of habitats with various ...
References
Literature
* Leser, Hartmut, ed. (2005). ''Wörterbuch Allgemeine Geographie'', 13th ed., Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, .
External links
Information on wash margin vegetation by the Wattenmeer Nature Conservation StationWhat is the STRANDLINE?
durhambiodiversity.org.uk
Strandline Description (English)
eunis.eea.europa.eu
Soil seed bank and driftline composition along a successional gradient on a temperate salt marsh
bioone.org
*Page 9: "Setting: Intertidal Zones" in
Effects of Coastal Armoring on Sandy Beach Ecosystems
wa.water.usgs.gov
Geomorphology
Beaches
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