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MARSH (O. F. mersc, for merisc, a place full of "meres" or pools; cf. Ger. Meer, sea, Lat. mare)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 769 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARSH (O. F. mersc, for merisc, a place full of "meres" or pools; cf. Ger. Meer, sea, Lat. mare) , an area of low-lying watery
land
 . The significance of a marsh area is not so much in the manner of its formation as in the
peculiar
  chemical and
physical
  results that accompany it, and its relation to the ecology of plant and animal
life
 . Chemically it is productive of such gases as arise from decomposing vegetation and are transitory in their effects, and in the production of hydrated
iron
 
oxide
 , which may be seen floating as an iridescent scum at the edge of rusty, marshy pools. This sinks into the soil and forms a powerful
iron
  cement to many sandstones, binding them into a hard local
mass
 , while the surrounding sandstones are loose and friable. A curious morphological
inversion
  follows in a later
geological
  period, the marsh area forming the hard cap of a hill (see MESA) while the surrounding sandstones are weathered away.
Salt
  marshes are a feature of many low-lying sea-coasts and areas of inland drainage.


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