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Continental-Margin Sedimentation during High Sea Level Fluvial and glacial valleys flooded Sediments trapped in river-mouth estuaries and fjords If much sediment supplied, estuaries and fjords are filled deltas formed Sediment can escape to continental shelf mud winnowed by waves leaving sand nearshore mud transported to middle shelf On collision margins (narrow, steep shelf) sediment can escape to continental slope

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