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a major body of salty water that, in totality, covers about 71% of the Earth's surface. Oxbow lake: a U-shaped lake formed when a wide meander from the mainstem of a river is cut off to create a lake. Phytotelma: a small, discrete body of water held by some plants. Plunge pool: a depression at the base of a waterfall. Pool
The main European watershed is the drainage divide ("watershed") which separates the basins of the rivers that empty into the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea from those that feed the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea. It stretches from the tip of the Iberian Peninsula at Gibraltar in the southwest to the ...
M. Mediterranean Sea. Categories: Landforms of Europe. Bodies of water by continent. Water in Europe. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
The major shallow water bodies submerging parts of the northern plains are the Celtic Sea, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea complex, and the Barents Sea. The northern plain contains the old geological continent of Baltica , and so may be regarded as the "main continent", while peripheral highlands and mountainous regions in south and west ...
Rain over a Scottish catchment.Understanding the cycling of water into, through, and out of catchments is a key element of hydrology. Hydrology (from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) 'water' and -λογία () 'study of') is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and management of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources, and drainage basin ...
Bodies of water of San Marino (1 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Serbia (4 C) Bodies of water of Slovakia (4 C) Bodies of water of Slovenia (7 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Spain (11 C, 3 P) Bodies of water of Sweden (11 C, 4 P) Bodies of water of Switzerland (5 C)
Confluences are studied in a variety of sciences. Hydrology studies the characteristic flow patterns of confluences and how they give rise to patterns of erosion, bars, and scour pools. [2] The water flows and their consequences are often studied with mathematical models. [3] Confluences are relevant to the distribution of living organisms (i.e ...
Channel (geography) Vivari Channel in Albania links Lake Butrint with the Straits of Corfu. In physical geography and hydrology, a channel is a landform on which a relatively narrow body of water is situated, such as a river, river delta or strait. While channel typically refers to a natural formation, the cognate term canal denotes a similar ...