Sentences with phrase «enters coastal rivers»

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They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.

At Fortuna, the river turns west across the coastal plain and enters the Pacific via a large estuary in central Humboldt County, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Eureka.

When freshwater from a river enters a coastal ocean, a rotating mass of water called a bulge often forms near the mouth of the river.