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Deposits include organic clays and peats, up to 20 feet thick, and inter-bedded freshwater and brackish-water carbonaceous clays.
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The earliest remains reflect a brackish-water environment, with gray mullet, sea bream, and eels.
Fish Tales 2009
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Botryococcus is a fresh- or brackish-water alga that forms colonies.
The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book). Ann Althouse 2008
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Deposits include organic clays and peats up to 20 feet thick, and inter-bedded fresh - and brackish-water carbonaceous clays.
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More serious hazards are a number of flukes, or flatworms, which are carried by fresh- and brackish-water crayfish, crabs, and fish.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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More serious hazards are a number of flukes, or flatworms, which are carried by fresh- and brackish-water crayfish, crabs, and fish.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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On a narrow, sandy plain near a row of scrub pines, they found a brackish-water - filled crater they would later confirm as the crash site of an A-6A.
Avery, Robert D. 1968
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The many other species of mosquitoes that we have may be conveniently divided as to their breeding-habits into the fresh-water and the brackish-water forms.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Other cases could be added, as the relation between the extinct and living land-shells of Madeira; and between the extinct and living brackish-water shells of the Aralo-Caspian Sea.
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Other cases could be added, as the relation between the extinct and living land-shells of Madeira; and between the extinct and living brackish-water shells of the Aralo-Caspian Sea.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 10 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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