mud flats
Exposed estuary bottom
Mud flats are low-lying coastal or estuarine areas that are covered with water at high tide and exposed at low tide, revealing expanses of soft, silty mud.
They serve as feeding grounds for shorebirds and other wildlife.
The term is sometimes written as one word: We walked across the mudflats at dawn, watching sandpipers probe for worms.
- tidal poolsShoreline water pockets
- tidelandPeriodically submerged coast
- estuaryTidal mixing zone
- tidesPeriodic sea-level changes
- tidal rangeExtent of tide fluctuation
wetlands · squelch · ooze · gumboots · cockles · mudskippers · shore birds · salt marshes · migratory birds · bird watching · sea breeze · low tide · coastline · landforms · marine · ecosystems · brackish · mangrove
- seafloor sedimentssediment layers, seafloor, substrate, detritus, organic matter
- marshesmarsh grass, sedge, cattails, reeds, freshwater marsh
- flat thingssheet, card, plate, disk, tile
- Great Salt Lakesalt lake, brine shrimp, hypersaline, salinity, Jordan River
- Gulf CoastGulf of Mexico, Gulfport, Gulf beaches, Gulf Stream, Alabama
- intertidal zonetide pool, tide pools, rock pool, rockpool, rockpools
mud flatssandy beach
Granular coastal shoreline
rocky shore · sand flats · rock pools · sand bar · pebble beach
mud flatsdeep water
Significantly submerged aquatic zone
open ocean · ocean depths · high ground · uplands · cliffs