Between the estuariesof the Colne and the Stour lies a peninsula, part of which has already been treated, and the rest of it is now our subject.
Rivers, Lakes, and Estuaries The freshwater environment differs from the marine in the greater variety of its minerals, among other things.
But rivers are the routes by which minerals and wastes are transported toward the sea, and estuaries are significant because of the many forms of life that flourish there.
Studies of radioactivity in rivers and estuariesusually have been made in relation to the fate of effluents from nuclear plants.
As sites for radiobiological studies, rivers and lakes present problems of great complexity, but conditions at river mouths or estuaries are even more difficult because of the mixing by tidal action of fresh and salt water.
The channels of great rivers become unnavigable, their estuaries are choked up, and harbors which once sheltered large navies are shoaled by dangerous sand-bars.
When the breeding season is over, Curlew leave the mountain and the moor and return to the coast or tidal estuaries for the remainder of the year.
We haven't done the estuaries as well as I should like, but we'd better push on to the islands.
After lunch the large-scale chart of the estuaries was brought down, and we pored over it together, mapping out work for the next few days.
Take the big estuaries first, which, of course, might be attacked or blockaded by an enemy.
And lastly, my friend Mr. Brady, well known to naturalists, has found that many forms of Entomastraca are common to the estuaries of the east of England and to those of Holland.
The heavier and coarser have been left along the shores, as the gravels which fill the old estuaries of the east of England.
Illustration] [Illustration] Rapid human intrusion on estuaries during the past twenty years has been making apparent their phenomenal value in a natural condition.
From the beginning of October to the middle of May these birds are constantly found on our northern coasts, and on the rivers and estuaries with which they abound.
It frequents marshy places and the margins of lakes and rivers, seldom betaking itself to estuaries or the sea-coast until frost sets in.
They make their appearance in our bays and estuaries towards the end of autumn, and depart about the middle of April.
Although freshwater formations are often of great thickness, yet they are usually very limited in area when compared to marine deposits, just as lakes andestuaries are of small dimensions in comparison with seas.
When the young are fledged they assemble in flocks before leaving for the south and during the winter months may be found on the mud flats of our estuaries and flat coasts, as well as occasionally on reservoirs and sewage farms inland.
From September to March they are to be found in small flocks throughout the coastal districts of Australia on the shores of estuaries and lakes and in fresh-water swamps.
They are fond of the mud and sand flats in the tidal estuaries at low water where they appear to find plenty of food, and they run about on the eel grass.
The dugong is a near relation of the manati, which frequents the tropical rivers and estuaries of West Africa, the West Indies, and South America.
It frequents the shores of estuaries and seacoasts with plenty of seaweed.
This was easily accounted for, as the rainy season had not yet set in, and the waters at the various estuaries were, therefore, comparatively little agitated.
The Gulf of Paria, as is known, is just north of several of the largest estuaries of the Orinoco and the line of demarcation between the salt water of the Atlantic and the fresh water of Venezuela's great river is usually quite marked.
From the lantern surmounting the dome is the finest view of Boston, with the mass of estuaries penetrating the land on all sides, the harbor and islands, and over the neighboring country for many miles.
The estuaries of the Clyde, Tyne, and Mersey have been thus improved, while Manchester has been made a seaport by an artificial canal.
The coves and estuaries along the middle Atlantic coast produce the best in the world.
By the improvement of the river estuaries and canals this city has become one of the best ports of Europe, and the tonnage of goods handled at the docks is enormously increasing.
The facilities for the rapid transfer of freights have been improved by the reconstruction of the various river estuaries so as to make them ship-channels.
The navigable parts of the Hudson and Delaware Rivers are estuaries of the sea or "drowned valleys.
The estuaries into which they flow are usually navigable for river-craft.
There is a considerable local traffic on the estuaries of the rivers, but this is confined to the rainy seasons.
The most noticeable feature of the county are the two estuaries of the Dee and the Mersey.
In the north-west of the county a rectangular stretch of country known as Wirral is washed by two great estuaries and by the Irish Sea, and a wedge of moorland in the north-east penetrates into the heart of the Pennines.
The Ellesmere Canal connects the estuaries of the Dee and the Mersey, and thus cuts off the Wirral peninsula from the rest of the county.
When this canal was being made, layers of fine sand and sea shells were found, proving that at some not very remote period the estuaries of the Mersey and the Dee were connected with one another.
Communities including an inshore neritic feeding element are the only ones that include herbivores, and even then, few of these species exist in significant numbers in the marine environment (discounting estuaries and sheltered bays).
Herring spawn in intertidal and subtidal zones and spend most of their post-larval lives in bays or estuaries near the coast.
Species inhabitingestuaries and sheltered bays are not included.
Tetraodon hispidus abounds inestuaries and shallow bays from Hawaii to India.
The species are deep-bodied, shad-like fishes of the rivers andestuaries of eastern America and eastern Asia.
The steelhead (Salmo rivularis) is a large trout, reaching twelve to twenty pounds in weight, found abundantly in river estuaries and sometimes in lakes from Lynn Canal to Santa Barbara.
In shallowestuaries like those of Essex the tides have necessarily to be studied more carefully than in deep waters.
The Smelt, Osmerus eperlanus, is abundant in the shallow waters and estuaries on the Norfolk coast in spring, ascending the fresh-water rivers to spawn.
Most of the owners of the beds of the shallow estuaries have a large capital invested.
Wherever there are rivers, estuaries of the sea, lagoons, and pools of water of any extent the bird is generally distributed," says Gould.
But they probably also act like grey mullet, and run up the estuaries merely for a cruise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estuaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
