Liman (landform)
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liman-landform-244-2798710
title:
Liman (landform)
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A liman is an enlarged estuary formed as a lagoon at the wide mouth of one or several rivers, where flow is nearly fully or partially constrained by a mouth bar of sediments (peresyp), as in the Dniester Liman or the Razelm liman. A liman can be maritime or fluvial. The term describes many wet estuaries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov; a synonymous term guba (губа) is used in Russian sources for estuaries of the Russian shores in the north. Water in a liman is brackish with a variable salin
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description:
River estuary lagoon in Black Sea region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liman_(landform)
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date modified:
2024-04-09T17:17:06Z
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