Bodies of water Bodies of water An anchialine pool is a land locked body of water connected to the ocean by a subterranean tunnel. Fewer than a thousand anchialine pools exist worldwide. They are found coastally, mostly on the island on Hawaii. Anchialine pools are home to mostly native Hawaiian Shrimp. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anchialine pool"
An arm in geography, is a narrow extension, inlet, or smaller reach, of water from a much larger body of water, like a ocean, sea, or lake. Although different geographically, a sound or bay may be called an arm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arm (geography)"
An arroyo is a dry creek bed or gulch that fills with water either seasonally, or after a heavy rain. As such, the term is similar to the word wadi. Arroyos can be natural or man-made. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arroyo (creek)"
In geography, a bight is a bend or curve in the coastline. Literally, a bow or arc, but often connotes a wide open bay of larger scale ...more on Wikipedia about "Bight (geography)"
A body of water is any significant natural pool of water such as an ocean, a lake, or a river, covering the Earth or another planet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Body of water"
Chalk streams have characteristics which set them apart from watercourses associated with other rock types. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chalk stream"
In physical geography, a channel is the physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks. See Stream bed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Channel (geography)" Be happy with www.shortopedia.com
(Deluge (prehistoric)) In the relatively recent geological past, several great floods are widely suspected to have occurred, with varying amounts of supporting evidence, usually as a result of the last Ice Age ending. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deluge (prehistoric)"
A Dew pond is a man-made pond placed on the top of hills, built for watering livestock. Dew Ponds or troughs are used in areas where a natural supply of surface water may not be readily available. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dew pond"
An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the open sea and within which sea water mixes with fresh water. The key feature of an estuary is that it is a mixing place for sea water and a significantly-sized river to supply fresh water. A tide is a necessary component to maintain a dynamic relationship between the two waters. Though something in the nature of an estuary can exist in a non-tidal sea, such areas go by names such as lagoon, étang or laguna. In non-tidal seas, the rivers naturally form deltas rather than estuaries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Estuary"
A fjord (sometimes written fiord, notably in New Zealand English) is a glacially overdeepened valley, usually narrow and steep-sided, extending below sea level and filled with salt water. However, many fjords are called "canals", "inlets" and "sounds" even when they are fjord-like in character, e.g. Hood Canal and Burrard Inlet in North America's Pacific Northwest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fjord"
The foreshore, also called the intertidal or littoral zone, is that part of a beach that lies between average high tide and average low tide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Foreshore"
A freshet can refer to one of two things: ...more on Wikipedia about "Freshet"
A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. A bay is the reverse, an area of water bordering land on three sides. Large headlands may also be called peninsulas, long, narrow and high headlands promontories. When headlands dramatically affect the ocean currents they are often called capes. A gulf generally occupies an area larger than a bay and may itself contain one or more bays. ...more on Wikipedia about "Headlands and bays"
A hot spring or a hydrothermal spring is a place where warm or hot groundwater issues from the ground on a regular basis for at least a predictable part of the year, and is significantly above the ambient ground temperature (which is usually around 55–57 °F or 13–14 °C in the eastern United States). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hot spring"
An inlet is a body of water, usually sea water, which has characteristics of one or more of the following: ...more on Wikipedia about "Inlet"
A kettlehole (or kettle hole) is a small, usually round depression formed as a result of glacial action. They are believed to form when a large piece of ice breaks from the edge of a retreating glacier, and becomes partially buried under glacial debris deposited by the glacier; after melting, this fragment leaves a small depression in the landscape. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kettlehole"
As a body of water, a kill is a creek. The word comes from the Middle Dutch kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel." The modern Dutch term is kil. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kill (body of water)"
A Lake is a body of water surrounded by land. The majority of lakes are fresh water, and most lie in the northern hemisphere at higher latitudes. Large lakes are sometimes referred to as "inland seas" and small seas are sometimes referred to as lakes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lake"
A leat (also spelled lete) is the name, common in the south-west of England, for a man-made watercourse, or makeshift aqueduct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leat"
The List of waterways is a link page for any river, canal, estuary or firth. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of waterways"
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Ocean (from Okeanos, Greek for river, the ancient Greeks noticed that a strong current flowed off Gibraltar, and assumed it was a great river); covers almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth, and nearly half of the world's marine waters are over 3000 m deep. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ocean"
An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ocean current"
A polynya (pronounced pol-in-YA) is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice. The term originates from the Russian term "полынья" for ice hole. ...more on Wikipedia about "Polynya"
A pond is a body of water smaller than a lake. However the difference between a pond and a lake is subjective. Pond usually describes small bodies of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross. Another definition is that a pond is a body of water where even its deepest areas are reached by sunlight or where a human can walk across the entire body of water without being underneath. In some dialects of English, pond normally refers to small artificially created bodies of water. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pond"
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