An inlet is a typically long, narrow indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, an estuary, a gulf or a marginal sea. It marks a place where the sea reaches inland from a larger ocean or sea, and its shape and origin vary: some inlets are carved by glaciers, as with fjords, while others form on sandy coastlines where barrier islands separate the inlet from the open sea.
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In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
Caused By: Glaciation, Lead paragraph
An inlet is a typically long and narrow indentation of a shoreline such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.
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