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A bore in Morecambe Bay, in the United Kingdom Video of the Arnside Bore, in the United Kingdom The tidal bore in Upper Cook Inlet, in Alaska. A tidal bore, [1] often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's current.
Tidal bore – A water wave traveling upstream a river or narrow bay because of an incoming tide; Tidal prism – Volume of water in an estuary or inlet between mean high tide and mean low tide; Wetland – Type of land area that is flooded or saturated with water
A view over the estuary from above Coast Guard Island.Alameda is on the left, with Oakland on the right and San Francisco Bay in the distance. The Oakland Estuary is the strait in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, separating the cities of Oakland and Alameda and the Alameda Island from the East Bay mainland.
The bay covers somewhere between 400 and 1,600 square miles (1,000–4,000 km 2), depending on which sub-bays (such as San Pablo Bay), estuaries, wetlands, and so on are included in the measurement. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The main part of the bay measures three to twelve miles (5–19 km) wide east-to-west and somewhere between 48 miles (77 km) 1 ...
Alamitos Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of southern California, United States, between the cities of Long Beach and Seal Beach, at the outlet of the San Gabriel River. It is near Los Angeles. The bay is named for the Spanish word for 'little poplars'. [1]
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An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, [1] that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
Ocean City's Inlet Parking Lot will be closed for public parking from Sept. 10 until Oct. 13, 2024, to accommodate several upcoming events taking place this fall, the Town of Ocean City said in a ...