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Sound – A long, relatively wide body of water, connecting two larger bodies of water; Spit – Coastal bar or beach landform deposited by longshore drift; Spring – A point at which water emenges from an aquifer to the surface; Stack – Geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock and stump
Some bodies of water collect and move water, such as rivers and streams, and others primarily hold water, such as lakes and oceans. Bodies of water are affected by gravity, which is what creates the tidal effects. [3] The impact of climate change on water is likely to intensify as observed through the rising sea levels, water acidification and ...
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic [1] [2] land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain , and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography .
Compare to Category:Landforms and Category:Wetlands Bodies of water may exist within land areas or within other bodies of water and may be natural, human-made or a combination. Contents Top
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 artificial structure.
Landforms related to rivers and other watercourses include: Channel (geography) – Narrow body of water; Confluence – Meeting of two or more bodies of flowing water; Cut bank – Outside bank of a water channel, which is continually undergoing erosion; Crevasse splay – Sediment deposited on a floodplain by a stream which breaks its levees
Bodies of water by country (225 C) Canyons and gorges by country (46 C) ... International landforms (10 C, 2 P) A. Landforms of Afghanistan (11 C, 7 P)
Occasionally, "confluence" is used to describe the meeting of tidal or other non-riverine bodies of water, such as two canals [26] or a canal and a lake. [27] A one-mile (1.6 km) portion of the Industrial Canal in New Orleans accommodates the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal ; therefore those three ...