An inlet is a (usually 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 .
5-694: Hardy Inlet is an inlet that is located in the South West region of Western Australia . The town of Augusta is situated on the South Western shore of the inlet, the inlet opens to the Southern Ocean via Flinders Bay . Both the Blackwood River and the Scott River discharge into the north eastern end of the inlet. The inlet is a wave dominated estuary with a high sediment trapping efficiency, it
10-404: Is Scandinavian for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called canals , e.g., Portland Canal , Lynn Canal , Hood Canal , and some are channels, e.g., Dean Channel and Douglas Channel . Tidal amplitude, wave intensity, and wave direction are all factors that influence sediment flux in inlets. On low slope sandy coastlines, inlets often separate barrier islands and can form as
15-535: Is always open to the ocean and the water is turbid . The total surface area of the inlet is 20 square kilometres (8 sq mi). Hardy Inlet is the wide, lower basin of the Blackwood Estuary with a long narrow and shifting entrance channel. The majority of the inlet is made up of shallow banks with a depth of less than 1 metre (3 ft) found between channels between 2 metres (7 ft) to 8 metres (26 ft) in depth. Algal blooms have been recorded in
20-549: Is permitted. Inlet In marine geography , the term "inlet" usually refers to either the actual channel between an enclosed bay and the open ocean and is often called an "entrance", or a significant recession in the shore of a sea, lake or large river. A certain kind of inlet created by past glaciation is a fjord , typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. Multi-arm complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds , e.g., Puget Sound , Howe Sound , Karmsund ( sund
25-400: The inlet around Molloy Island and West Bay as a result of elevated nutrient levels, particularly Nitrogen and Phosphorus levels. Warnings have been issued so that people do not consume shellfish such as mussels and oysters which can filter out the toxic algae. Commercial fishing was once conducted within the inlet but all licences have now been cancelled and only recreational fishing
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