estuary

Examples of estuary in the following topics:

• Estuaries & Marshes

• Estuaries: Where the Ocean Meets Fresh Water

  • Estuaries, composed of a mix of fresh and salt water and their living communities, are influenced by salinity and the changing tides.
  • Estuaries form a unique marine biome that occurs where a source of fresh water, such as a river, meets the ocean.
  • Estuaries form protected areas where many of the young offspring of crustaceans, mollusks, and fish begin their lives.
  • Salinity of estuaries is a very important factor that influences the organisms found there and their adaptations.
  • Once or twice a day, high tides bring salt water into the estuary.

• Marine Habitats

  • Marine habitats include coastal zones, intertidal zones, sandy shores, rocky shores, mudflats, swamps and salt marshes, estuaries, kelp forests, seagrasses, and coral reefs.
  • They are found in sheltered areas such as bays, bayous, lagoons, and estuaries.
  • An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

• The Economy of the Middle Colonies

  • These industries, along with the presence of deep river estuaries, led to the appearance of important ports like New York and Philadelphia.

• Magnetosomes

  • One type of magnetotactic bacterium present at the oxic-anoxic transition zone (OATZ) of the southern basin of the Pettaquamscutt River Estuary, Narragansett, Rhode Island is known to produce both iron oxide and iron sulfide magnetosomes.

• Efficient wastewater treatment

  • Based on the science of estuaries – nature's own filtration system – each tank, which averages about 4 m, contains a unique ecosystem designed to break down select toxins before passing them on to others further down the line.

• Habitat Loss and Sustainability

  • Elimination of their ecosystem - whether it is a forest, a desert, a grassland, a freshwater estuary, or a marine environment - will kill the individuals within most species.

• 10 reasons for a business to become sustainable

  • In river sediments and estuaries these substances are ubiquitous.
  • (EPA pamphlet, Volunteer Estuary Monitoring: A Methods Manual, March 2006, ch. 12) Swallowed to combat cancer, pain, depression and other ailments, most medications do not harmlessly dissolve into patients and disappear.

• Odoacer and the Fall of Rome

  • Ravenna proved to be invulnerable, surrounded by marshes and estuaries and easily supplied by small boats from its hinterlands, as Procopius later pointed out in his History.