Category:Estuary
From The Gulf by Jack E. Davis
Cradles of Life
Latin antecedent, Aestuarium, which means "tidal place". Central to these marine systems is a dynamic exchange between seawater and freshwater, the latter pouring in from a stream, river, or overland runoff.
The sixty-five rivers that turndle of the the US into the Gulf collaborate in the cultivation of a nearly sold band of estuaries that runs its shores. Bearing nutrient-provisioned sediment, the flowing freshwater stirs its charge into the salty sea tide. This brackish broth stimulates spectacular vegetable and animal growth, setting a table for hungry wildlife...
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The Gulf of Mexico is on of the largest estuarine regions in the world, with more than two hundred estuaries (more than one quarter of all North American estuaries) occupying nearly eight million acres around its shores ....
island or peninsula
bay
bayou
cove
lagoon
inlet
sound
delta
marsh
the Gulf has no shortage of these ...
among the world most productive habitats.
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Pages in category "Estuary"
The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Media in category "Estuary"
The following 48 files are in this category, out of 48 total.
A scorching year, what about the 360 warming data.jpg 600 × 706; 106 KB
Bill Nye The Planet's on Fire.jpg 800 × 675; 106 KB
Climate News Dec 4 2023 in Dubai.png 800 × 1,037; 649 KB
Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources - GreenPolicy.png 768 × 897; 686 KB
Climate poll - Florida.png 640 × 267; 36 KB
COP28 News - Dec 13 2023.png 800 × 898; 410 KB
Cradle of Civilization - and climate change.jpg 640 × 360; 70 KB
EarthScience Missions via the EOS - 2022.png 800 × 219; 139 KB
EO and Fire Ants in the US - on World Wildlife Day.png 768 × 811; 663 KB
EO Snapshot 6-29-2016 10-44-49 AM.png 839 × 768; 907 KB
ESG Fight - Feb 2023.png 396 × 194; 88 KB
Estuary in Clearwater on Tampa Bay.jpg 3,584 × 2,016; 1.5 MB
Eukaryotic Cell SCU.jpg 716 × 1,024; 799 KB
Fire Ants.png 601 × 600; 603 KB
Floating adaptations - GCA - for sea-level rise - circa 2023.png 600 × 732; 273 KB
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Florida Wildlife Corridor - 2022 illustration.png 800 × 628; 473 KB
Florida Wildlife Corridor FLWC Water Benefits December 2022.png 768 × 886; 109 KB
GreenPolicy360 - May-10-2024.png 790 × 694; 320 KB
Huge heat anomaly in 2023 - by Gavin Schmidt.png 735 × 857; 172 KB
Mapping changes in global temperature 1850-2022.png 656 × 680; 180 KB
NOAA - NCEI report on US temps 2023-2024.jpg 600 × 561; 109 KB
NOAA extreme weather events charting.png 663 × 600; 288 KB
NOAA report on heat records broken in US - 2023.jpg 600 × 480; 229 KB
Oceans hottest in 2022.png 800 × 501; 358 KB
Our Fragile Moment.jpg 612 × 480; 80 KB
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Planet Dove satellite image over Dubai.png 800 × 791; 1.58 MB
Record tumble - climate change.png 727 × 333; 27 KB
Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy.jpg 640 × 327; 56 KB
Republican Party 2024 Climate Strategy.png 589 × 344; 44 KB
Shell lawsuit Feb 2023.png 768 × 534; 229 KB
T-Bay Estuary.jpg 423 × 216; 29 KB
Telling stories of solutions for the climate crisis.jpg 600 × 640; 121 KB
Temperature - SST World via Climate Change Institute - 2023 chart.png 800 × 509; 144 KB
Temperature World - chart via Climate Change Institute.jpg 800 × 509; 67 KB
Ten thousand islands -- Marco island.jpg 640 × 360; 30 KB
The Gulf.jpg 327 × 498; 31 KB
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Who really invented the climate stripes - Climate Change Education.png 600 × 600; 234 KB
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