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Ancient sediments like these in Brittany, ...

Searching for seashells at low tide in a large ...

In warm, tropical oceans, like that shown in ...

In some of the deepest parts of the ocean, at ...

Sand collects in shallow parts of the ocean like ...

Sedimentary rocks made of sand, called sandstone ...

Salt marshes like the one shown in (A) are often ...

This river (A) carries so much sediment that ...

Do you see how the sediment that is collecting ...

The sand dunes in White Sands National Monument, ...

If you are going to a swamp like the one in (A), ...

At the bottom of lakes such as (A) Waterton Lake ...

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