drowned river造句

• It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea.
• Port Hacking is a drowned river valley, with a water surface area of.
• In certain locations there are still knickpoints preserved in these drowned river channels and valleys.
• The Kaipara Harbour is broad and mostly shallow, as it is formed from a system of drowned river valleys.
• The lakes included a drowned lowland, Langvlei; a drowned river valley, Swartvlei; and a wind-formed and later flooded hollow, Rondevlei.
• Like most of its kind on the south coast of Cornwall and Devon, the Fal estuary is a classic ria, or drowned river valley.
• The Bay of Kotor in Montenegro has been suggested by some to be a fjord, but is in fact a drowned river canyon or ria.
• The Inner Miramichi Bay, and the lower portions of its tributary rivers ( including the Miramichi River ), are parts of a drowned river valley system.
• The bay is a drowned river valley estuary which is composed of three ancient river valleys; the Sakonnet River, the East Passage and the West Passage.
• The Marlborough Sounds, a series of deep indentations in the coastline at the northern tip of the South Island, are in fact drowned river valleys, or rias.
• The present bay results from tidal flooding of drowned river valleys formed primarily by the Mashpee and Santuit Rivers as a result of a risen sea level.
• Indian River Bay is unique among Delaware's inland bays in that it is a drowned river valley, whereas Delaware's other bays are estuaries built on sand bars.
• The Earth's natural processes, particularly sea level rises, waves and various weather phenomena, have resulted in the erosion, continental shelves and drowned river valleys ( rias ).
• Some of the interest features are Kenmare Bay ( a drowned river valley or ria ), signs of past glaciation and volcanic activity and 400-million-year-old fossilised tetrapod tracks.
• It is an extreme example of a ria ( drowned river valley ), because it is disproportionate to the size of the small streams which flow into it.
• It is, like the other sounds, a drowned river valley ( or ria ), and like the majority of its neighbours it runs southwest to northeast before joining Cook Strait.
• The tidal estuarine section is an example of a Ria ( a drowned river valley ) and at low tide, the rivers almost dry up to a very small natural level.
• Elevations of the liquid in these channels are at the same level as Ligeia Mare to within a vertical precision of about 0.7 m, consistent with the interpretation of drowned river valleys.
• On its main forks, the Coquille is also an alluvial river valley, meaning it was once a drowned river valley a lake, or perhaps a much wider river, with a sandy bottom.
• There are 2, 500-year-old oyster shell middens ( heaps ) along the banks of the Damariscotta River, which occupies a drowned river valley leading to the Gulf of Maine, a large embayment of the Atlantic Ocean.