relict channel

relict channel
реликтовый канал

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  • tidal inlet —    1) Any inlet through which water alternately floods landward with the rising tide and ebbs seaward with the falling tide.    Compare: inlet, relict tidal inlet.    GG    2) [ relict ]    A channel remnant of a former tidal inlet. The channel… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

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