Estuary - Wikipedia
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. [1] Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environments and are an example of an ecotone.
What is an estuary? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
Estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.
Estuary | Coastal Features, Marine Life & Conservation | Britannica
2024年12月4日 · estuary, partly enclosed coastal body of water in which river water is mixed with seawater. In a general sense, the estuarine environment is defined by salinity boundaries rather than by geographic boundaries.
What is an estuary? Estuaries Tutorial - National Oceanic and ...
Estuaries are bodies of water and their surrounding coastal habitats typically found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries harbor unique plant and animal communities because their waters are brackish—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.
Basic Information about Estuaries | US EPA - U.S. Environmental ...
2024年3月14日 · An estuary is a partially enclosed, coastal water body where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the ocean. Estuaries, and their surrounding lands, are places of transition from land to sea.
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In the most general terms, an estuary is an ecosystem, comprising both the biological and physical environment, that has developed in a region where rivers meet the sea and fresh-flowing river water mingles with tidal salt water to become brackish, or partly salty.
Estuaries - NOAA's National Ocean Service
Estuaries are bodies of water and their surrounding coastal habitats typically found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries harbor unique plant and animal communities because their waters are brackish—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.
Estuary Education - National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
2024年9月19日 · An estuary is a partially enclosed body of water (such as a bay, lagoon, sound, or slough) where two bodies of water, usually saltwater and freshwater, meet and mix. Freshwater estuaries occur where freshwater from a river or stream mixes with water from a lake that is chemically distinct.
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2024年4月23日 · Generally speaking, an estuary is anywhere that a river meets the ocean, typically seen as a place of mixing between fresh and saltwater—though not always! Along the length of an estuary, the water will shift from being mostly fresh …
What is an Estuary? - National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
2024年9月19日 · Estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.
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