loading...| Preferred Name |
bar |
| Synonyms |
barrier beach undersea shoal barrier island seafloor feature ball tongue recurved spit sand lobe offshore bar hook shoal patches sandbar marsh bar sand spit point shoal spit hooked spit shoals bank longshore bar sand hom transverse bar tongue (seafloor) sand bar Shoal cuspate spit sand bank |
| Definitions |
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. Bars tend to be long and narrow (linear) and develop where a current (or waves) promote deposition of granular material, resulting in localized shallowing (shoaling) of the water. Bars can appear in the sea, in a lake, or in a river. They are typically composed of sand, although could be of any granular matter that the moving water has access to and is capable of shifting around (for example, soil, silt, gravel, cobble, shingle, or even boulders). The grain size of the material comprising a bar is related: to the size of the waves or the strength of the currents moving the material, but the availability of material to be worked by waves and currents is also important. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000167 |
| database_cross_reference |
FTT:209 EcoLexicon:bar TGN:21531 FTT:208 Geonames:U.BNKU TGN:21177 SWEETRealm:Bar FTT:210 Geonames:U.TNGU TGN:23191 Geonames:U.SHLU FTT:206 Geonames:U.BKSU Geonames:T.BAR TGN:21480 FTT:5 FTT:1195 Geonames:H.BNK Geonames:U.SHSU Geonames:H.SHOL |
| definition |
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. Bars tend to be long and narrow (linear) and develop where a current (or waves) promote deposition of granular material, resulting in localized shallowing (shoaling) of the water. Bars can appear in the sea, in a lake, or in a river. They are typically composed of sand, although could be of any granular matter that the moving water has access to and is capable of shifting around (for example, soil, silt, gravel, cobble, shingle, or even boulders). The grain size of the material comprising a bar is related: to the size of the waves or the strength of the currents moving the material, but the availability of material to be worked by waves and currents is also important. |
| has quality | |
| has_broad_synonym |
seafloor feature |
| has_related_synonym |
barrier beach undersea shoal barrier island ball tongue recurved spit sand lobe offshore bar hook shoal patches sandbar marsh bar sand spit point shoal spit hooked spit shoals bank longshore bar sand hom transverse bar tongue (seafloor) sand bar Shoal cuspate spit sand bank |
| label |
bar |
| prefixIRI |
ENVO:00000167 |
| prefLabel |
bar |
| subClassOf |