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Intro To Oceanography Estuaries

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<ol><li><p>Tectonic Slash Faults</p><ol><li><p>San Andreas Fault</p></li></ol></li><li><p>Rising Sea Level Drowning River Valleys</p><ol><li><p>Chesapeake Bay</p></li></ol></li><li><p>Fjord</p></li><li><p>By barrier island or coral reefs</p></li><li><p>Human activity</p><ol><li><p>Harbor</p></li></ol></li></ol><p></p>

  1. Tectonic Slash Faults

    1. San Andreas Fault

  2. Rising Sea Level Drowning River Valleys

    1. Chesapeake Bay

  3. Fjord

  4. By barrier island or coral reefs

  5. Human activity

    1. Harbor

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Embayments

Bays

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How embayments can form

  1. Tectonic Slash Faults

    1. San Andreas Fault

  2. Rising Sea Level Drowning River Valleys

    1. Chesapeake Bay

  3. Fjord

  4. By barrier island or coral reefs

  5. Human activity

    1. Harbor

<ol><li><p>Tectonic Slash Faults</p><ol><li><p>San Andreas Fault</p></li></ol></li><li><p>Rising Sea Level Drowning River Valleys</p><ol><li><p>Chesapeake Bay</p></li></ol></li><li><p>Fjord</p></li><li><p>By barrier island or coral reefs</p></li><li><p>Human activity</p><ol><li><p>Harbor</p></li></ol></li></ol><p></p>
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Fjord

Elongate embayments excavated by glaciers

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Estuary

An embayment with fresh water input and significant tidal flux

<p>An embayment with fresh water input and significant tidal flux</p>
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Estuarian hydrology

Comprised of the water coming from both the land runoff and marine environment

Hydrology controls water chemistry, the biota, and sediment

Brackish salinity

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Brackish salinity

Both rivers and tides flow into the estuary, mixing freshwater and seawater

Mix of freshwater and seawater

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