Puget Sound Nearshore Environments Large River Mouth Processes Water is a powerful force, and a large river mouth is the confluence of several different sources: fluvial energy descending the river itself; nearshore energy moving along the shoreline; and wave energy moving into the shoreline. These combined forces move material and nutrients in the nearshore and estuarine environments. Download the illustration in Acrobat format. File size 229 Kb, appx download time, 1.3 min using a 28.8 Kbps modem. >Next: Stream Mouth Processes

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