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The Ria Formosa lagoon, located in the Algarve, in southern Portugal, is a system of barrier islands that connects to the sea through six inlets. Five of these inlets are natural and have mobility characteristics. The sixth is an artificial inlet that was opened with the purpose of allowing easier access to the port of Faro.
The formation is lithologically similar to the Ashdown Formation and comprises complex cyclic sequences of siltstones with sandstones and clays, typically fining upwards. In the western parts of the county the Tunbridge Wells Sands can be divided into three; the Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand, the Grinstead Clay, and the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand.
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Lagoons are commonly divided into coastal lagoons (or barrier lagoons) and atoll lagoons. They have also been identified as occurring on mixed-sand and gravel coastlines.
Hynek spotted the system of lagoons through satellite imagery in April 2022 when he was studying another lagoon in northwestern Argentina that had smaller stromatolites with microbes that use ...
Mamelon – Rock formation created by eruption of relatively thick or stiff lava through a narrow vent; Marine terrace – Emergent coastal landform; Marsh – Low-lying and seasonally waterlogged land; Massif – The principal mass of a mountain; Meander – One of a series of curves in a channel of a matured stream
This is a list of lagoons of Australia. Coastal lagoons in Australia are most common on the south-east coast, south-west coast , and in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north. [ 1 ]
It is also a raised coral atoll (321 km 2, 124 sq mi land area; according to other sources even 575 km 2, 222 sq mi), 160 km 2 (62 sq mi) main lagoon, 168 km 2 (65 sq mi) other lagoons (according to other sources 319 km 2, 123 sq mi total lagoon size). The geological formation known as a reef knoll refers to the elevated remains of an ancient ...
Lists of lagoons: List of lagoons of Albania; List of lagoons of Australia; List of lagoons of California, United States; List of lagoons of New Zealand;