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Calanque – Narrow inlet on the Mediterranean coast; Cliff – Tall, near vertical rock face; Coast – Area where land meets the sea or ocean; Continental shelf – Coastal and oceanic landform; Coral reef – Outcrop of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of stony coral skeletons; Cove – Small sheltered bay or coastal inlet
Narrows Inlet [1] formerly Narrows Arm [2] is a fjord branching east from Sechelt Inlet in British Columbia, Canada. [3] Its companion, Salmon Inlet, another side-inlet of Sechelt Inlet, lies roughly 10 km (6.2 mi) south. [4] About halfway up the inlet lies the Tzoonie Narrows site of Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park.
Firth is a cognate of fjord, a Norse word meaning a narrow inlet. Forth stems from the name of the river; this is *vo-rit-ia ('slow running') in Proto-Celtic, yielding Foirthe in Old Gaelic and Gweryd in Welsh. [3] It was known as Bodotria in Roman times and was referred to as Βοδερία in Ptolemy's Geography.
2. A small, narrow, sheltered bay, inlet, tidal creek, or recess in an estuary, often within a larger embayment. 3. A small, often approximately circular, wave-cut indentation or recess in a cliff on a large body of water, especially one with a relatively narrow or secluded entrance. 4.
A fiord is a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. The spelling fiord is used in New Zealand rather than fjord , although all the maritime fiords instead use the word sound in their name.
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These are long narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity. In the 21st century, however, the preferred usage of ria by geologists and geomorphologists is to refer solely to drowned unglaciated river valleys. It therefore excludes fjords by definition, since fjords are products of glaciation. [2] [3] [4]
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