Sentences with phrase «outer coast»
The phrase "outer coast" refers to the parts of a coastline that face the open ocean or sea, away from land. It is the area where waves and tides from the ocean directly impact the shore. Full definition
The appearance of large zones of low - oxygen or no - oxygen along exposed outer coasts like Oregon and Washington came as a complete surprise.
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The outer coast of Louisiana, which Leatherman refers to as «the erosion «hot spot» of the U.S.,» is losing some 50 feet of beach every year.
In March 1986 Atwater drove west from Seattle toward Neah Bay and Cape Flattery, on the northwestern tip of Washington State, and started searching the beaches, tide marshes, and river estuaries for clues about whether the outer coast had risen or dropped.
If the two plates were sliding past each other smoothly, at a constant rate, and without getting stuck together, then there should be a slow, continuous, and irreversible rise in land levels along the outer coast.
British Columbia's outer coast has over 700 species of seaweeds.
Some of the outer coast seaweeds we can use are very fascinating!
And the researchers observed that infection rates associated with inland waters were no greater than in mammals found along the outer coast.
«They like this wide, sort of flat sandy beaches so Ocean Beach [from stairwell 21 to Sloat Blvd.], especially on the outer coast, is one of the primary beaches in the Bay Area,» Merkle explains.
The Museum collection comprises ethnographic, historic, archaeological and archival material of the northern Vancouver Island area, specifically from Oyster River east to Desolation Sound and north to Rivers Inlet, including off - shore islands; west to Gold River and beyond to the outer coast at Estevan Point, and north to the tip of Vancouver Island.