Sentence examples for shoreline zone from inspiring English sources

The shoreline zone, therefore, becomes the battleground between variable amounts and sizes of sediment delivered to the river mouth and the energy of the ocean waters at that site.

The effects are particularly acute in those zones where there are outfalls of raw sewage or sewage effluent, as is the case at several sites within the urban shoreline zone at Chetumal, Quintana Roo, where clandestine discharges of soapy water have been detected.

For lakes, 10-m long and 5-m wide littoral areas of relatively homogeneous substratum were chosen and riparian vegetation, designated at a 50-m long and 5-m wide shoreline zone, was classified as above.

A grab sampler was used to collect sediment samples at a depth of 0 10 cm at the littoral (within 2 m from the shoreline) and sub-littoral (2 5 m from the shoreline) zones.

Shoreline Management Zone (SMZ) means a 50-foot-deep vegetated zone designated by TVA on TVA-owned land.

Mr. McAllister said creekkeepers would watch for illegal wetland filling, trophy lawns intruding into natural-vegetation shoreline buffer zones, beach-obliterating new bulkheads, bilge-purging pleasure boats, chain-saw wielding tree-cutters on creek banks, and the signs -- and odors -- of failed septic systems fouling the water.

Shoreline management zones include a naturally evolving, undeveloped segment; a noneroding, developed segment; eroding and noneroding segments of an "improved beach" where dunes have been built by artificial nourishment; and a privately built, artificially nourished dune on the shoreline of an inlet.

The modified proposal would survey 51 square miles, stretch over 12 days and focus on portions of the Hosgi, Los Osos and newly discovered Shoreline fault zones in the Estero Bay area.

This study investigated changes in the pattern and variability of both the shoreline and nearshore zone along the southern Romanian coast located downdrift of the Danube delta.

Archaeologically important Pleistocene inliers in the form of sandy hills protruding above the delta plain surface (known as "turtlebacks"), also became smaller as the delta plain continued to aggrade, while the shoreline and coastal zone prograded north.

The shoreline, the second zone, is formed by wave action and is in equilibrium between erosion and deposition, with the initial plants stabilizing the sand of the new shoreline.