From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Inlet

Indentation of a shoreline

Summary

Indentation of a shoreline

An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.

Overview

The [[Jersey Shore]] extends inland from the [[Atlantic Ocean]] into its many

inlets, including Manasquan Inlet, looking westward at sunset from the jetty at Manasquan, New Jersey, U.S.]] In marine geography, the term "inlet" usually refers to either the actual channel between an enclosed bay and the open ocean and is often called an "entrance", or a significant recession in the shore of a sea, lake or large river. A certain kind of inlet created by past glaciation is a fjord, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes.

Multi-arm complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds, e.g., Puget Sound, Howe Sound, Karmsund (sund is Scandinavian for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals, e.g., Portland Canal, Lynn Canal, Hood Canal, and some are channels, e.g., Dean Channel and Douglas Channel.

Tidal amplitude, wave intensity, and wave direction are all factors that influence sediment flux in inlets.

On low slope sandy coastlines, inlets often separate barrier islands and can form as the result of storm events. Alongshore sediment transport can cause inlets to close if the action of tidal currents flowing through an inlet do not flush accumulated sediment out of the inlet.

Notes

References

[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inlet "inlet"]. [[Dictionary.com]]. [[Ask.com]]. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
(2015-06-01). "Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling of New River Inlet (NC) under the interaction of tides and waves". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
(2016-12-01). "Barrier island breach evolution: Alongshore transport and bay-ocean pressure gradient interactions". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
(2009). "Morphodynamics of Tidal Inlet Systems". Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

inlets coastal-and-oceanic-landforms bodies-of-water

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Inlet — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report