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Coastal Plains
Title: Coastal Plains
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 119 | Pages: 0.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Coastal Plains
The Coastal Plains
The lowland area stretches3200 kms from Cape Cod, along the Atlantic coast, including Florida then into Mexico
TOPOGRAPHY
The average elevation is less than 200 feet above sea level .The surface is mostly flat or bumpy. More than half of the Coastal Plains is less than 30 meters above sea level.
The plains contain many bogs and marshes. In the past, the land was sinking it allowed water from the ocean to seep into …showed first 75 words of 119 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 119 total…the Coastal Plains is less than 30 meters above sea level.
The plains contain many bogs and marshes. In the past, the land was sinking it allowed water from the ocean to seep into the plains. These creating transportation routes and agricultural land, and all the swamps are important factors to shellfish and other aquatic life forms.
CLIMATE
Climate varies greatly in this region. It has cold snowy winters and hot humid summers.
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