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What term describes the area around the mouth of a river where fresh water and salty water mix?
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∙ 10y agoIt's called Brackish water
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How do you use river mouth in a sentence?
The ocean met the river mouth on the beach and the salt water and the fresh water mixed with the incoming tides.
Is stlawrence river salt or fresh water?
The St Lawrence River is fresh to the south end of Isle d'Orleans. It is salt from the north end of Isle d'Orleans to its mouth in the gulf.
What do call salt water and fresh water meet?
Fresh water and salt water meet at a river's mouth, where fresh water becomes salty and is known as brine. This mixing often occurs in an estuary, where the river widens.
What is the river of water that flows through the ocean?
Are you talking about the Amazon? The output of the Amazon is so huge that fresh water flows out for (I believe) hundreds of miles from the river's mouth. People can be out in those waters and not even realize that they are on fresh water.
What is Estuary meaning?
The mouth of a river where it meets the sea, with a mixing of fresh and salt tidal water
What are esturaries?
it is a place where the fresh water merges with the sea water.
What term best describes the location of a delta?
Flood plain, ie lowwer course or river mouth.
What is an example for a river mouth?
an example of a river mouth would be the mouth of the Mississippi river
Is the Sheepscot river a fresh river or salt water river?
it is a fresh water river
What is the difference between ponds lakes and estuaries?
Estuaries are flooded valleys at a river's mouth. Deltas are prograding wedges of sediment at a river's mouth. Estuaries may develop into deltas overtime as more sediment builds up and out at the river's mouth. Estuary is a zone of mixing of fresh & saline water.........but delta is made of fresh water's silt near a sea.....
Where is the mouth of the river?
The mouth of the river is at the end of the riveri
Where is the the River Mouth?
The mouth of the river is at the end of the riveri
