Estuaries

• What is an estuary?


  The tidal part of a river when the channel broadens out and reaches the sea
• How is a estuary different to the river mouth?


  -A mouth is the DEFINITE end of a river, where it meets either a sea or a lake

  -An estuary is partly enclosed and involves the mixing of river water with sea water
• What are estuaries affected/impacted by?


  Both coastal (tidal) and river (fluvial) processes
• If the area is flat and wide what does this show?

  Lateral erosion

  
• What river process occurs here to form mudflats?

  Deposition

  
• What does deposition form here?


  Mudflats

  
• What is adapted here?

  Vegetation

  
• What characteristics show there to be lateral erosion?


  The area being flat and wide