barrier coast

barrier coast
Общая лексика: берег, окаймлённый баром

Универсальный англо-русский словарь. . 2011.

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  • Barrier — may refer to: * Automatic full barriers, railway * Barricade * Crash barrier, highway * Language barrier, culture/linguistics * Noise barrier, noise prevention * Road block * Separation barrier, prevents the movement of people across a certain… …   Wikipedia

  • Coast Capital Savings — Credit Union Type Credit Union Industry Financial services Founded …   Wikipedia

  • Barrier Bay — (coord|67|45|S|081|15|E|) is an open bay in the Antarctic coastal angle formed by the coast and the western end of the West Ice Shelf. Charted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936… …   Wikipedia

  • Coast — For other uses, see Coast (disambiguation). A coastline or seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean.[1] A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the dynamic nature of tides. The term coastal zone can …   Wikipedia

  • barrier beach —    1) A narrow, elongate, coarse textured, intertidal, sloping landform that is generally parallel with the beach ridge component of a barrier island or spit and adjacent to the ocean.    Compare: barrier island.    SSS    2) [ relict ]… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

  • barrier — /ˈbæriə / (say bareeuh) noun 1. anything built or serving to bar passage, as a stockade or fortress, or a railing. 2. any natural bar or obstacle: *Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson had found a way over the blue barrier that had pinned the settlers… …  

  • Coast Range Geomorphic Province — The Coast Range Geomorphic Province is a portion of coastal California, United States. This orogen geomorphic province constitutes a barrier between the Pacific Ocean and the San Joaquin Valley which trends northwest from Point Conception to the… …   Wikipedia

  • barrier bank — a shelf edge bank separating inshore waters from the deep ocean. Rich in nutrients, and fish stocks, from ocean upwelling that washes over the barrier bank, e.g. Georges Bank on the Atlantic coast of North America …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • BARRIER REEF, THE GREAT —    a slightly interrupted succession of coral reefs off the coast of Queensland, of 1200 m. extent, and 100 m. wide at the S., and growing narrower as they go N.; are from 70 to 20 m. off the coast, and protect the intermediate channel from the… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • barrier reef — noun A name given to reefs separated from the adjacent coast by a channel or lagoon …   Wiktionary

  • barrier reef — /bæriə ˈrif/ (say bareeuh reef) noun a long narrow ridge of coral close to or above the surface of the sea off the coast of a continent or island …  


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