Sentence examples for sandy shoal from inspiring English sources

I sent a backcast to a green ghost of a fish cruising along the line where the white sandy shoal turned to a ribbon of sea grass, its dark fringe not grass at all, but schools of wriggling sand eels that were no longer than your finger.

The Lower Triassic in the Mabei area is dominated by fan deltas, which are composed of fan-delta plain (including subaerial debris flow, braided channel, conglomerate overbank, and floodplain), fan-delta front (including conglomerate shoal and sandy shoal), and prodelta.

As the plane's cameras scan the sandy shoal, surrounded by aqua waters, he says, "Once you pan to the east, there's a dredger active that will take land from the ocean and pile it up to build more land, which gives them more space".

Sandy shoals emerge in the shallow, central portions during the pre-monsoon dry seasons.

The braided channels, conglomerate shoals, and sandy shoals are easy to form high-porosity reservoirs.

The conglomerate shoals and sandy shoals form by a sheet flow prograding into lakes and occur as a sheet.

The main implication of our study is that accurate and well-designed process measurements of dune dynamics and tidal currents can provide useful information on the longer term evolution of intertidal shoals in sandy, shallow (flood-dominant) estuaries.

Manta rays and hammerhead sharks also occasionally roam the shoal's sandy bottom.

The shoal itself was sandy and shallow -- generally less than 45 feet deep -- which makes anchoring the turbines to the seabed easier, and the entirety of the 25 square mile project area, surrounded by the cape to the north, the islands of Martha's Vineyard to the west, and Nantucket Island to the east, would be protected from the often punishing, 50-foot swells of a stormy North Atlantic sea.

Storms and surf heap up fragmental material into beaches and shoals, and the shoals may develop into low sandy or rubbly islets or cays on top of the reef.

In temperate and tropical areas, they haul-out on to sandy and pebble beaches, rocky shores, shoals, mud flats, tide pools and in sea caves.