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    In sedimentary rock: Nonmarine environment

    …the nonmarine environment occurs in closed lakes—i.e., those without outlet—in arid and semiarid regions. Such lakes form in closed interior basins or shallow depressions on land where drainage is internal and runoff does not reach the sea. If water depths are shallow or, more typically, somewhat ephemeral, the term playa…

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