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Strand plain

Okay, imagine you're at the beach and you're building a sandcastle. Do you remember how you take a handful of sand and let it fall on the ground, making a pile? That's kind of how a strand plain works.

So, imagine the ground at the beach is flat, and there are no hills or valleys. Now imagine a bunch of sand grains falling on it and forming a pile. That pile forms a little hill within the flat ground. And then, more sand falls on top of that little hill, and it becomes a bigger hill, and so on.

Now, let's expand this beach area to be miles long. As the wind blows the sand, the piles start to merge into each other, creating ridges or dunes. These ridges or dunes are called the strand plains.

So essentially, a strand plain is just a flat area of land at the beach that has ridges or dunes formed by the wind blowing sand and creating hills over time.
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