| LC control no. | sh 85012515 |
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| Topical heading | Bays |
| Variant(s) | Bights (Bays) Gulfs |
| See also | Bodies of water Coasts |
| Found in | Random House (bight: def. 5 a bay or gulf) Glossary of geology, 1997 (bay [coast] (a) A wide, curving open indentation, recess, or arm of a sea or lake into the land or between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove, and usually smaller than, but of the same general character as, a gulf. (b) A large tract of water that penetrates into the land and around which the land forms a broad curve. By international agreement (for purposes of delimiting territorial waters), a bay is a water body having a baymouth less than 24 nautical miles wide and an area that is equal to or greater than the area of a semicircle whose diameter is equal to the width of the baymouth.) Thesaurus for graphic materials I: subject terms, via WWW, July 7, 2003 (Bays. UF Coves, Estuaries, Gulfs, Inlets, Sounds (Geomorphology). BT Bodies of water) |
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