Ecosystems
What is the coastal plain?
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Discovery Channel
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The coastal plain is a low-lying strip of land that lies along a seacoast and slopes gently toward the sea. It's formed when the edge of a continent that lies just beneath the shallow waterline, called the continental shelf, rises up and is exposed as a nearly flat plain. All continents have coastal plains, but some are narrow and broken and some are wide and continuous. They change slowly over long periods of time by rivers that carry sediment from a continent's interior. These rivers can form flood plains by depositing sediment along their banks or carry the sediment toward their mouths where it is left in the shallow water of the continental shelf.
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