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Low tide on the main stream presents an opportunity to see an outstanding illustration of the way the spartina alterniflora has built up the marsh over the millenia. In the picture, a six feet bank of strata is visible above the sandbar, all of it sediment and root mass left by generations of alterniflora.
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