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DocuSign Envelope ID: 2D970A62 -10C1- 4949 - 9224- E9F2ADB7D568 <br />14 Stream confluences: A place adjacent to the meeting of two or mo re streams. Should a site be located within 200 meters <br />(656 feet) of a stream confluence, it should be coded as such (14) regardless of other topographic features on which <br />the site is located. <br />15 Terrace face: The steep slope between the floodplain and terrace or between terraces. Sites once on the terrace may be <br />found exposed on the terrace face, or sites buried within a terrace may be exposed by the erosion of a terrace edge. <br />16 Hammock: A fertile area of deep humus - rich soil - gently covered by hardwood vegetation, often rising slightly above a <br />plain, swamp, or saltwater marsh. Also called a Hummock. <br />17 Beach: A gently sloping zone, typically with a concave profile of unconsolidated material (generally sand) that extends <br />inward from the low water line to the place where there is a definite change in the material or physiography, as sand <br />dunes or cliffs. Beaches are associated with bodies of water large enough to have waves and/or tides. <br />18 Rock shelter: An area protected by a ledge of overhanging rock. Typically such shelters are the result of undercutting <br />erosion of a limestone or sandstone cliff or bluff face. <br />19 Island: A tract of land completely surrounded by water such as an ocean, sea, lake, orstream. <br />20 Fan (note whether colluvial or alluvial): A gently sloping fan - shaped mass of detritus, formed commonly at a place where <br />there is a notable decrease in gradient (e.g., the intersection of a cliff and floodplain). An alluvial fan is stream <br />deposited, and a colluvial fan is formed from rocks and soil eroded from a narrow portion of a cliff face. <br />21 Toe slope /ridge toe: A toe - shaped extension from the crest or side of a hill or other highland surface. Typically a ridge <br />toe divides two drainages, however minor. Ridge toes are also called spurs. <br />22 Cave: A naturally formed, subterranean open area or chamber, or series of chambers. <br />23 Bluff. A high bank or bold headland with a broad precipitous, almost perpendicular, sometimes rounded cliff face <br />overlooking a plain or a body of water, especially on the outside of a stream meander. <br />24 Cove: A small, straight valley extending into a mountain or down a mountainside. A term used in the southern <br />Appalachian Mountains for a relatively level area sheltered by hills or mountains. <br />25 River shore: A narrow strip of unconsolidated sediments (i.e., sand or silt) immediately adjacent to a stream; usually <br />nonvegetated. <br />26 Stream bank: The sloping margin of a stream, serving to confine the water to its normal channel. <br />27 Bench: A small terrace or step -like ledge breaking the continuity of a slope; an eroded bedrock surface between valley <br />walls. <br />99 Other: Please describe the situation coded as Other in detail in the space provided. <br />OSA Site Form Handbook Version VII, Page 14 <br />