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Water

Lakes that are above 5,000 feet altitude

Underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock

Arroyo (watercourse)

A dry creek or stream bed with flow after rain

Confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure

Avulsion (river)

The rapid abandonment of a river channel and formation of a new channel

Movement of a glacier over its underlying meltwater

Big Five personality traits

Personality model consisting of five broad dimensions of personality

Channel pattern

Characteristic geometry of a channel system

A deep crack, or fracture, in an ice sheet or glacier

Those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form

Discharge (hydrology)

Flow rate of water that is transported through a given cross-sectional area

Area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet

Basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body

Endorheic basin

Closed drainage basin that allows no outflow

Partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with river stream flow, and with a free connection to the sea

Overflow of water that submerges land that is not normally submerged

Lake formed by a melted glacier

Persistent body of ice that moves downhill under its own weight

Water located beneath the ground surface

Groundwater recharge

Groundwater that recharges an aquifer

Applied science of measurement and description of physical features of bodies of water

The science of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets

The combined mass of water found on, under, and above the surface of a planet, minor planet, or natural satellite

Large mass of glacial ice

Large floating platform of ice caused by glacier flowing onto ocean surface

Large piece of freshwater ice broken off a glacier or ice shelf and floating in open water

Intertidal zone

Area of coast exposed only at low tide

Large inland body of relatively still water

The science of inland aquatic ecosystems

Stream or river that loses water as it flows downstream

Marine chemistry

The study of ocean chemistry

Marine chemistry

Chemistry of oceans and seas

Sinuous bend in a series in the channel of a river

Memory bandwidth

Measure of the amount of data transferred per unit time

Directional mass flow of oceanic water generated by external or internal forces

The study of the physical and biological aspects of the ocean

U-shaped lake or pool left by an ancient river meander

Soil frozen for a duration of at least two years

Landlocked basin (endorheic basin)

A relatively small body of standing water

Proglacial lake

A lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet

Lake formed as a result of subsidence related to movement on faults within a rift zone

Natural flowing freshwater stream

Silt deposition landform at the mouth of a river

Rogue wave (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Topics referred to by the same term

Salt pan (geology)

Flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals

Ice formed from frozen seawater

Geographical reference point

The current long-term trend for sea levels to rise mainly in response to global warming

The bottom of the ocean

Water from a sea or an ocean

Subregion of the Asian continent

Spring (hydrology)

Point at which water emerges from an aquifer to the surface

The flow of water in streams, rivers, and other channels

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U.S. government database

Line of lowest elevation in a watercourse or valley

Thermohaline circulation

A part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes

Vertical difference between the high tide and the succeeding low tide

A rocky pool on a seashore, separated from the sea at low tide, filled with seawater

Series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water

Turbidity current

An underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope

Underground lake

Lake under the Earth's surface

Volcanic crater lake

Lake formed within a volcanic crater

Continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth

Surface waves generated by wind on open water