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1. A period of geologic time characterized by unchanging sea levels (i.e. a state of neither regression nor transgression).
2. In a raised bog, the condition in which productivity is balanced by the decomposition of peat, so growth ceases.
1. A period of geologic time characterized by unchanging sea levels (i.e. a state of neither regression nor transgression).
2. In a raised bog, the condition in which productivity is balanced by the decomposition of peat, so growth ceases.
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