Small Bodies of Water

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As a result, rivers deposit these sediments at their mouth, creating a system of braided channels. These braided channels eventually form a sandy landform that can support wetland habitats.

a mostly enclosed sea that has a limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds In fact, nearly all of the freshwater bodies of water in Scotland are called lochs, including the stunning Loch Avon and the Loch Ness of Loch Ness Monster fame. Simply put, a stream is any flowing body of water along the Earth’s surface. We often use the word “stream” to refer to smaller rivers, though this usage varies across the world. Marshes are a type of wetland ecosystem that contains large concentrations of grasses, sedges, and rushes. These marshes are mostly freshwater habitats that form along the edges of small and shallow lakes and rivers.Oxbow lakes are a particularly amazing type of water body because they demonstrate the fact that the Earth’s surface is constantly changing. These lakes form over the course of many years due to the ever-shifting banks of a river. Stream: a small body of water that possesses a current, banks, and a bed but remains smaller than a river. Canals are a type of man-made body of water. They were traditionally created to allow boats and other vessels to travel between two major bodies of water even when a navigable river didn’t exist. Boasting glistening blue waters, tarns are small, alpine lakes. Unlike regular alpine lakes, though, tarns form in glacially-carved cirques and they’re often bounded on multiple sides by glacial moraines. In the winter of 1933/4 Ritter, an Austrian painter and self-proclaimed “housewife”, makes the radical decision to join her hunter-trapper husband and a Norwegian hunter in Arctic Spitsbergen, living together in a tiny hut. Often alone for long spells, her mundane chores and her will to survive the extremes uncover marvels, both in the place and her spirit. The imagistic prose is exhilarating. Written as a journal – with long periods tellingly absent – we witness her transformation as she relinquishes herself to this place.

I dream again of a heated pool filled with deep layers of memory. We huddle by the ladder in our regulation white swim caps and navy swimsuits, a dusting of talcum powder on our collarbones, our arms crossed tightly over our chests. My suit is coming undone at the left shoulder strap even though my mother’s sewn it up twice. I grip it self-consciously, worried the last threads will snap. The navy nylon is too small for me now, digging in at the hips. I can’t stand having my body out of the water, exposed to the wind, to other girls’ stares. In the concrete city of Shanghai, the over-chlorinated pool became our sanctuary. It sparkled aquamarine against a skyline of dust. We were thirteen, almost fourteen, but underwater we still pretended we were something other than human. Or maybe we weren’t pretending at all. Underwater everything was different, bathed in holy silence and blue echoes. The slanted windows cast wavering lines of liquid light beneath the surface. We felt the way our bodies moved, lithe and strong and new. We pushed off from the edge into the blue again and again, diving deeper and deeper each time. A pond is traditionally a small body of still freshwater. While there is no technical definition of a pond, most people would agree that a pond is smaller than a lake; however, you will find some relatively large bodies of water that are called ponds in certain parts of the world.When most of us picture bodies of water, we think of lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans. However, there are dozens of different types of bodies of water out there, each of which plays a vital role in its local ecosystems.

Billabongs, alongside other oxbow lakes, form as a river erodes away at the landscape. Eventually, the river will change its course as it charts the path of least resistance from its source to its outflow. Either a narrow artificial channel off a river or broad for access or mooring, or a ditch (a water-filled drainage trench); not to be confused with Dyke (embankment)

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a shallow, natural depression in level ground, with no permanent above-ground outlet, that holds water seasonally. Sometimes, complexes of many inlets are collectively referred to as sounds, though this is not the traditional use of the term “sound.” Examples of these collective inlets include the Puget Sound off the coast of northern Washington state in the USA and Howe Sound to the northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia. 21. Kettle Lake Technically speaking, all of the Earth’s oceans are connected and there is only one “global ocean.” However, for geographic reasons, the Earth’s oceans are divided up into a handful of named oceans, including the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, and Southern oceans.