Coastal zone

Coastal zone

Relatively nutrient-rich, shallow part of the ocean that extends from the high-tide mark on land to the edge of the continental shelf.

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coastal zone

Natural environment; Coral reefs

Coastal waters and adjacent lands that exert a measurable influence on the uses of the oceans and their living and nonliving resources.

coastal zone

Environment; Environmental conservation

Lands and waters adjacent to the coast that exert an influence on the uses of the sea and its ecology or whose uses and ecology are affected by the sea.

coastal zone

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Ocean waters and adjacent lands that exert an influence on the uses of the sea and its ecology. It is formed as the result of an abrasion process (destruction of sea coast by ...

coastal zone

Geography; Physical geography

Relatively nutrient-rich, shallow part of the ocean that extends from the high-tide mark on land to the edge of the continental shelf.

coastal zone

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A region a few kilometers wide on either side of the shoreline where local thermal circulations such as the sea breeze and land breeze occur.

coastal zone

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