Coastal and Oceanic Landform ( 45. Sound )

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• A sound or seaway is a large sea/ ocean inlet.

• A narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land.

• It is  larger than a bay.

• Deeper than a bight.

• Wider than a fjord.

• Short name for the Øresund.

• The main waterway between the North Sea &  the Baltic Sea.

• Inlets containing large islands.

                                          e.g. Puget Sound

                                                   Howe Sound

• Open ocean

                                              Queen Charlotte Sound

                                              Caamaño Sound

• Formed by the sea flooding a river valley.

• This produces a long inlet  sloping valley hillsides descend to sea-level.

• It continue beneath the water to sea floor.

                                     example : The Marlborough Sounds,New Zealand

• Sound is produced glacier carving out a valley on the coast then receding.

• The glacier produces has steep.

• Near vertical.

• Deep under water.

• This type of sound termed a fjord.

                     e.g.Fiordland, New Zealand

• A sound generally connotes a protected anchorage.