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Its length is 989 kilometres (615 miles), with Iran covering most of the northern coast and Saudi Arabia most of the southern coast. The Persian Gulf is about 56 km (35 mi) wide at its narrowest, in the Strait of Hormuz. Overall, the waters are very shallow, with a maximum depth of 90 metres (295 feet) and an average depth of 50 metres (164 feet).
Texas Gulf Coast is an intertidal zone which borders the coastal region of South Texas, Southeast Texas, and the Texas Coastal Bend.The Texas coastal geography boundaries the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a geographical distance relative bearing at 367 miles (591 km) of coastline according to CRS [1] and 3,359 miles (5,406 km) of shoreline according to NOAA.
The Persian Gulf Basin (Persian: آبخیز شاخاب پارس, Arabic: حوض الخليج الفارسی) is found between the Eurasian and the Arabian Plate.The Persian Gulf is described as a shallow marginal sea of the Indian Ocean that is located between the south western side of Zagros Mountains and the Arabian Peninsula and south and southeastern side of Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
Map of the major and minor estuaries of the Gulf Coast of Texas. The U.S. state of Texas has a series of estuaries along its coast on the Gulf of Mexico, most of them bounded by the Texas barrier islands. Estuaries are coastal bodies of water in which freshwater from rivers mixes with saltwater from the sea.
San Antonio Bay is a bay on the Texas Gulf Coast situated between Matagorda and Aransas Bay.It consists mainly of the combined waters of the San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers, and is located at the mouth of the Guadalupe River, about 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Corpus Christi and 130 miles (209 km) southeast of San Antonio.
East Texas; Edwards Plateau; Gulf Coast, also known as Texas Gulf Coast, which can refer to either an economic region defined by the Texas Comptroller or a geographical region encompassing all of Texas's coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. Llano Estacado [23] North Texas; Northeast Texas; Northwest Texas, an economic region defined by the Texas ...
San Luis Pass is a passage of water on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States. It connects the sheltered waters of West Bay to the open Gulf of Mexico between Galveston Island and San Luis Island. Fishermen and swimmers have been killed in the Pass' treacherous waters. [2] [3] The Gulf of Mexico-West Bay pass transitions vast volumes of ...
Galveston Bay (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas. It is the seventh-largest estuary in the United States, [2] and the largest of seven major estuaries along the Texas Gulf Coast. It is connected to the Gulf of Mexico and is surrounded by sub-tropical marshes and ...