There are also marginal marshes above mean tide level, tidal sandbars and islands with their networks of tidal channels, subaqueous distal bars and proto-delta clays and silt sediments.
2.
As most local coral growth stops at about below the ocean surface, such a massive stony coral base suggests a gradual Bokak's perched lagoon sits above the mean tide level, resulting in an unusually calm surface.
3.
Like Taongi Atoll, the combination of an almost completely enclosed lagoon and waves driven over the reef by the prevailing northeastern trade winds results in the water level being perched some 0.5 m above the mean tide level.
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