Small Bodies of Water

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Technically speaking, all of the Earth’s oceans are connected and there is only one “global ocean.” However, for geographic reasons, the Earth’s oceans are divided up into a handful of named oceans, including the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic, and Southern oceans.

An arroyo is a type of small creek or stream that’s generally found in desert areas. The word “arroyo” comes from the Spanish word arroyo, which means stream.Most fjords are surprisingly deep, even if they are quite narrow. They tend to have large, steep cliffs on either side, which provide for some dramatic scenery. 18. Gulf As a river flows, it naturally erodes away at the landscape, creating a meandering path from its source to its outlet. Eventually, very large curves in a river will start to get cut off from the river itself as the water seeks out the path of least resistance.

Elegant, understated, urgent and nourishing, this is a book that gives shape to the many intimate waters that connect us, to languages loved, lost and longed for, to the lands that honour us by giving us a home. With poetic precision, Nina Mingya Powles shows us what nature writing can be, braiding place, food, family, migration and all their legacies. This is non-fiction at its most dynamic, its most transporting. I will keep this book close by and return to it often”a natural waterway usually formed by water derived from either precipitation or glacial meltwater, and flows from higher ground to lower ground.