Liman (landform)
Landsat
satellite photo of limans along the Black Sea coastDnieper River and Southern Bug
river estuariesDniester Liman forming the Dniester
river estuaryA liman (
fluvial (the bar being created by the slowed or turned flow of a sediment-saturated river).[1] The term describes many wet estuaries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov; a synonymous term guba (губа) is used in Russian sources for estuaries of the Russian shores in the north.[2]
Water in a liman is brackish with a variable salinity: during periods of low fresh-water intake, wide-mouthed, deep examples will be greatly saline from inflow of sea water and evaporation.
Such features are found in places with low
Anadyrskiy Liman and Amur Liman in Siberia
.
Etymology
English borrows the word from
natural harbour
is frequently synonymous.
Locations
Europe
- Turkey: Lake Büyükçekmece, Lake Küçükçekmece.
See also
- Natural harbour
- Ria
References
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Look up liman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ (in Romanian) Mihai Ielenicz (ed., 1999): Dicționar de geografie fizică, Corint publ., Bucharest, 1999 ; Grigore Antipa (1941) : Marea Neagră, Romanian academy press, Bucharest, 1941, pp. 55-64, and Petre Gâștescu, Vasile Sencu (1968) : Împărăția limanelor, Meridiane publ., Bucharest.
- ^ "лимáн" Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary in Russian
