Sentences with phrase «submerging coastal land»
In addition to permanently submerging coastal land, sea - level rise will make the flood damage from hurricanes and nor'easter s worse in the future, he said.
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As the border of a continent extends underwater from the shoreline, the submerged shelf resembles coastal land beside it.
The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (Sanctuary) consists of an area of approximately 1,110 square nautical miles (nmi) of coastal and ocean waters, and the submerged lands thereunder, off the southern coast of California.