Salt marshes

type of coastal ecosystem, land outside the dikes that is not flooded with seawater with average high tide

salt marsh located near the Great Rann of Kutch in Kutch district, Gujarat, India

300px|thumb|Map of the Zayandeh/Gavkhouni drainage basin Gavkhouni () also written as Batlaq-e-Gavkhuni, located in the Iranian Plateau in central Iran, east of the city of Isfahan, is the terminal basin of the Zayandeh River. Gavkhouni is a salt marsh with a salinity of 31.5% and an average depth of about 1 m. The salt marsh can dry up in summer. The Zayandeh River originates in the Zagros mountains, and travels around 300 km, before terminating in Gavkhouni.

landform

Bay at the Somme estuary (Picardy, France)

marsh with brackish levels of salinity