estuary
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Then we paddled around the estuary on a pre-breakfast kayak tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Space Center Houston sits a couple miles inland from a tidal estuary that feeds into the Gulf’s Galveston Bay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The environment 132 million years ago would have looked very different from today's coastline, estuary, and developed landscape.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026
The 4,140-sq-km bay is the largest estuary on the west coast of the US.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
The town lay on a broad estuary, its old yellow plastered buildings hugging the beach.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
They placed groups of these tiles in three estuaries in the Sydney region, Brisbane Water, the Hawkesbury River and Port Hacking, near existing oyster reefs where larvae are present.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026
They are also found around river mouths, estuaries and manmade structures like piers and groynes.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
Thousands of water tests to identify potential harmful pollution in rivers, lakes and estuaries in England have been cancelled in the last three months due to staff shortages, the BBC has learned.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Currently, more than 8,000 people live in flood plain areas along estuaries in the Cascadia coastal region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
This has to do with the fishes of salt marshes, bays, and estuaries.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing estuary
Physical Geography - Introductory
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