Sentence examples for outer estuary from inspiring English sources

In sediments at the outer estuary, As was accumulated and diagenetically cycled in the surficial layers, as throughout much of the Bothnian Bay.

He told BBC Earth, "This bird was keeping just on the edge of an advancing tide, advancing as it does extremely rapidly along the stretch of outer estuary from Meols through to West Kirby.

Estuaries are important coastal ecosystems which occur where there is a confluence of fresh and marine environments and create a salinity gradient from the inner to outer estuary (Prandle 2009).

The concentrations of As in solution form (< 1 kDa) increase steadily from the creek mouth to the outer estuary, suggesting that inflowing seawater, rather than AS soil, is the major As source in the estuary.

Further evidence that the mangroves supply the majority of DOC, Hg, and MeHg is that midestuary high SUVA254 values cannot be explained by invoking an appreciable contribution of freshwater-derived or outer estuary DOC.

If the large majority of DOC and Hg were produced in the fresh waters of the sawgrass slough or in the outer estuary and this was where the majority of Hg methylation occurred, there would not have been a midestuary maximum.

In turbid environments such as inner and outer estuaries, the LOICZ DIP budgets can provide highly unrealistic NEP estimates [e.g., [ 12, 13]] due to complex abiotic processes of desorption/adsorption from/on suspended matter [e.g., [ 16]].

Transgressive facies associations show an overall upward fining of grain size and include inner estuary distributary channels with minimal brackish-water or tidal influence (FA6), transition zone fluvial-tidal distributary channels (FA7), tide-dominated mid-outer estuary channel-bars (FA8), and intertidal to supratidal flat units (FA9).

The RSPB objected to the site, about 30km north of Torness in the outer Forth Estuary, on the grounds that it would be harmful to seabirds.

The Neart na Gaoithe windfarm, based in Scotland's outer Forth estuary, would have a capacity of about 450MW of power and was originally planned to cost £1.4bn to build, though that is likely to rise to more than £2bn.

The RSPB said the population of the birds in the outer Thames estuary could be displaced by the extension.