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channels

 Type(s): Concept

Alternative label (1)

  • chutes (hydrographic)
  • cutoffs (hydrographic)
  • inlets
  • lake channels
  • marine channels
  • narrows (hydrographic)
  • navigation channels
  • reaches (hydrographic)
  • sounds (bodies of water)
  • straits

Preferred label (1)

  • channels

Associations (6)

 

Hierarchy (Broader/Narrower)

Internal Occurrences (1)

  • Definition
    • (a) Relatively narrow seas or stretches of water between two close landmasses and connecting two larger bodies of water; (b) Deeper parts of a moving body of water (as bays, estuaries, or straits) through which the main current flows or which affords the best passage through an area otherwise too shallow to navigate. [Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]
  
Object id: 800
Item identifier(s):
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