- Industry: Earth science
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Sand dune that forms in coastal areas. The sand for its formation is supplied from a beach.
Industry:Earth science
Seawater with a salinity greater than 35 parts per thousand. Usually occurs in isolated bodies of seawater that have high amounts of water loss due to evaporation.
Industry:Earth science
Similar to inertial instability but due to imbalance between pressure gradient and inertial forces for infinitessimal disturbances that meridionally displaces fluid along isentropes (in atmosphere) or isopycnals (in ocean). For geostrophic motion in the Northern Hemisphere, symmetric instability may occur only if the potential vorticity is negative.
Industry:Earth science
Simple marine animals that live symbiotically with algae. In the symbiotic relationship, the algae provides the coral with nutrients, while the coral provide the algae with a structure to live in. Coral animals secrete calcium carbonate to produce a hard external skeleton.
Industry:Earth science
Situation where coral lose their colorful symbiotic algae. Thought to be caused by unusually warm water, changes in salinity of ocean seawater, or excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
Industry:Earth science
Sloping bank landward of the shore. This coastal feature is composed of relatively non-mobile sediments.
Industry:Earth science
Somewhat enclosed coastal area at the mouth of a river where nutrient rich fresh water meets with salty ocean water.
Industry:Earth science
Sostatic adjustments of the Earth’s crust relative to sea level, due to the loading and unloading of ice sheets.
Industry:Earth science
