ESTUARY

LANDFORM
S

WHAT IS AN ESTUARY
LANDFORM?

An estuary is a body of water that

opens to an ocean or other body of
saltwater. It is partially enclosed and
fed by one or more rivers.

HOW ARE ESTUARIES

FORMED?

An estuary is the wide part of a river

where it nears the sea. There are 4
reasons how estuaries are form :
1) Rising the sea level
2) Movement of sand
3) Glacial process
4) Tectonic process

LIST OF FAMOUS
ESTUARIES

1.) Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland, USA

2.) Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada
3.) San Francisco Bay, California, USA
4.) Thames Estuary, UK
5.) Ro de la Plata, Uruguay and Argentina

CHESAPEAKE
BAY
- Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary of the US, collecting the waters of more than a
dozen major rivers and draining in the Atlantic Ocean. The bay is 200 miles long and 30
miles wide at its widest point.
- It's located between Virginia and Maryland and the mouth of the estuary is on Virginia
Beach, going into the Atlantic Ocean.
- The bay was formed by flooding of a river valley during the most recent post Ice Age
rise in sea level during
the last 10,000 years.
- Mixtures of freshwater and saltwater in the bay support a large variety of aquatic life,
and it is well known for harvesting crab and oysters