nearshore sediments

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• nearshore — adjective Date: 1896 extending outward an indefinite but usually short distance from shore < nearshore sediments > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• nearshore zone —    I.    A subaqueous marine or lacustrine landform area that generally parallels the shore and extends seaward or lakeward from the low water line to beyond the breaker zone including longshore bars. In the nearshore zone, waves steepen, break,… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Bengal, Bay of — Part of the Indian Ocean. Occupying about 839,000 sq mi (2,172,000 sq km), it is bordered by Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the northern Malay Peninsula. It is about 1,000 mi (1,600 km) wide, with an average depth of more than 8,500… …   Universalium

• Douglas Inman — Douglas Lamar Inman (born on July 7, 1920 in Guam, the Marianas Islands) is Professor emeritus of Oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received his B.A in physics/geology in 1942 from California State University, San Diego… …   Wikipedia

• sedimentary rock — Rock formed at or near the Earth s surface by the accumulation and lithification of fragments of preexisting rocks or by precipitation from solution at normal surface temperatures. Sedimentary rocks can be formed only where sediments are… …   Universalium

• Devonian Period — Interval of geologic time from 417 to 354 million years ago; it was the fourth period of the Paleozoic Era. During the Devonian, a giant continent was situated in the Southern Hemisphere (see Gondwana), and other landmasses were located in the… …   Universalium

• Great Lyakhovsky Island — Infobox Islands name = Great Lyakhovsky image caption = Map showing the location of Lyakhovsky Islands image size = locator Location map|Russia|lat=73.4|long=141.5 map custom = yes native name = Большой Ляховский native name link = Russian… …   Wikipedia

• Kotelny/Faddeyevsky Island — Kotelny Island ( ru. Остров Котельный) and Faddeyevsky Island (О. Фаддеевский) are part of the Anzhu Islands subgroup of the New Siberian Islands located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in the Russian Arctic. They are usually… …   Wikipedia

• Jurassic Period — Interval of geologic time, 206–144 million years ago, that is one of the three major divisions of the Mesozoic Era, preceded by the Triassic Period and followed by the Cretaceous. During the Jurassic, Pangea began to break up into the present day …   Universalium

• Silurian Period — Interval of geologic time, 443–417 million years ago. The third period of the Paleozoic Era, the Silurian follows the Ordovician Period and precedes the Devonian. It marks the first appearance of land plants and jawed fishes. The continents were… …   Universalium

• Puget Sound environmental issues — articleissues POV = December 2007 copyedit = January 2007 citationstyle = October 2008The environmental health of Puget Sound, Washington has a diverse and complex history related to a long, involved relationship with marine and freshwater… …   Wikipedia