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- Estuary abstract "An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environments. They are subject both to marine influences—such as tides, waves, and the influx of saline water—and to riverine influences—such as flows of fresh water and sediment. The inflows of both sea water and fresh water provide high levels of nutrients both in the water column and in sediment, making estuaries among the most productive natural habitats in the world.Most existing estuaries formed during the Holocene epoch with the flooding of river-eroded or glacially scoured valleys when the sea level began to rise about 10,000–12,000 years ago. Estuaries are typically classified according to their geomorphological features or to water-circulation patterns. They can have many different names, such as bays, harbors, lagoons, inlets, or sounds, although some of these water bodies do not strictly meet the above definition of an estuary and may be fully saline.The banks of many estuaries are amongst the most heavily populated areas of the world, with about 60% of the world's population living along estuaries and the coast. As a result, many estuaries suffer degradation by many factors, including sedimentation from soil erosion from deforestation, overgrazing, and other poor farming practices; overfishing; drainage and filling of wetlands; eutrophication due to excessive nutrients from sewage and animal wastes; pollutants including heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls, radionuclides and hydrocarbons from sewage inputs; and diking or damming for flood control or water diversion.".
- Estuary thumbnail Klamath_river_estuary.jpg?width=300.
- Estuary wikiPageExternalLink estuaries1.htm.
- Estuary wikiPageExternalLink LifeInTheChesapeakeBay.
- Estuary wikiPageExternalLink www.estuary-guide.net.
- Estuary wikiPageID "78471".
- Estuary wikiPageLength "22531".
- Estuary wikiPageOutDegree "184".
- Estuary wikiPageRevisionID "706888939".
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Alaska.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Algae.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Amazon_River.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Amur_River.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Anoxic_waters.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Bacteria.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Barnegat_Bay.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Barrier_island.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Bay_mud.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Benthic_zone.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Bioaccumulation.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Bird_migration.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Black-tailed_godwit.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Brackish_water.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Brown_trout.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Burrow.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bodies_of_water.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Coastal_and_oceanic_landforms.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Coastal_geography.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Estuaries.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fisheries.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geodesy.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_Bay.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Coastal_and_Estuarine_Research_Federation.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Coastal_fish.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Creek_(tidal).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Dead_zone_(ecology).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Deforestation.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Delaware_Bay.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Detritus.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Diatom.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Dinoflagellate.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Drakes_Estero.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Ecosystem.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Epoch_(geology).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Erosion.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Estuarine_acidification.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Eutrophication.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Fault_(geology).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Firth.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Fish.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Fjord.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Flood.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Fresh_water.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Freshwater_inflow.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Furan.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Galveston_Bay.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Geography_of_New_York–New_Jersey_Harbor_Estuary.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Geomorphology.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Gippsland_Lakes.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Gironde.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Glacier.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Golden_Horn.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Great_Bay_(New_Hampshire).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Greenland.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_Coast_of_the_United_States.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_of_Saint_Lawrence.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Habitat_destruction.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Hampton_Roads.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Head_of_tide.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Headlands_and_bays.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Holocene.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Hudson_River.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Humber.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Hydrocarbon.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Hypoxia_(environmental).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Iceland.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Invertebrate.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Klamath_River.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Lagoon.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Laguna_Madre_(United_States).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Borgne.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Merritt.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Pontchartrain.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Land_degradation.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Landslide.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Liman_(landform).
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink List_of_estuaries_of_England.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink List_of_estuaries_of_South_Africa.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink List_of_waterways.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Long_Island_Sound.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Longshore_drift.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Marine_debris.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Mid-Atlantic_states.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Mississippi_River.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Mobile_Bay.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Moraine.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Mudflat.
- Estuary wikiPageWikiLink Narragansett_Bay.