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List of shoals and sandbanks in the southern North Sea information


Shoals and sandbanks are characteristic underwater seabed features of the southern North Sea and the eastern English Channel. The relatively shallow water depth allows tidal currents to transport, configure and alter seabed materials, such as sand, shells, clay, and gravel, into elongated banks or shoals of shallow water.

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List of shoals and sandbanks in the southern North Sea

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Shoals and sandbanks are characteristic underwater seabed features of the southern North Sea and the eastern English Channel. The relatively shallow water...

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Shoal

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and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation. Shoals are also known as sandbanks, sandbars...

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Geology of the southern North Sea

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because it was not sealed in a trap such as the Rotliegend. North German basin List of shoals and sandbanks in the southern North Sea Stewart, Simon; Coward...

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Geography of the North Sea

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(secondary coordinates) List of rivers discharging into the North Sea List of shoals and sandbanks in the southern North Sea Bell Rock Lighthouse De Angelo...

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Inner and Outer Dowsing sand banks

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The Inner and Outer Dowsing sand banks are shallow-water shoals off the Lincolnshire coast of the UK sector of southern North Sea. They have been used...

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Atolls of the Maldives

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the capital Malé). There are also sandbanks, coral patches, innumerable farus and submerged shoals (called "haa" in Dhivehi). The general depths of the...

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Spratly Islands

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of the islands have civilian settlements, but of the approximately 45 islands, cays, reefs and shoals that are occupied, all contain structures that...

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Haisborough Sands

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sandbank off the coast of Norfolk, England at Happisburgh. The shoal is 10 miles (16 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and lies parallel to the north-east...

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Paracel Islands

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University of Virginia, "Security flashpoints: oil, islands, sea access and military confrontation", p174-185 "Spratly Islands - reefs, shoals, atolls, and islets...

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List of maritime features in the Spratly Islands

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the southern South China Sea to the north of Dangerous Ground and the Reed Bank (approx. 3-12°N). The major feature of the area is Dangerous Ground,...

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Goodwin Sands

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(16 km) sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea lying 6 miles (10 km) off the Deal coast in Kent, England. The area consists of a layer of approximately...

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River Clyde

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sandbanks and shoals. Another obstacle to navigation that had to be solved was that the river divided into two shallow channels by the Dumbuck shoal near Dumbarton...

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Firth of Clyde

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Tail of the Bank. (The "Bank" is a reference to the sandbank and shoal that separates the firth from the estuary of the River Clyde.) Even where the sandbank...

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Body of water

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refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such as ponds, wetlands, or more rarely, puddles. A body of water does not have...

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List of shipwrecks in 2023

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The list of shipwrecks in 2023 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2023. "Cargo ship sinks in strong winds in Taiwan, four...

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Fjord

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265 ft) below sea level. Fjords generally have a sill or shoal (bedrock) at their mouth caused by the previous glacier's reduced erosion rate and terminal...

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Philippines and the Spratly Islands

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(PRC), the Republic of China (ROC), Malaysia and Brunei, is a claimant country in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea. As of 2020[update]...

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Outline of oceanography

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Reef – A bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water Sandbank represented by ShoalSea – A large body of salt water...

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List of shipwrecks in the 17th century

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The list of shipwrecks in the 17th century includes ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost between (and including) the years 1601 to 1700. 20 July — Gift...

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Lake Ontario

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Irondequoit Bay, Presqu'ile Bay, and Sodus Bay. The bars themselves are the sites of long beaches, such as Sandbanks Provincial Park and Sandy Island Beach State...

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Saumarez Reefs

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Reefs is one of the southernmost reef systems located in the Coral Sea Islands, and part of the Coral Sea Shelf; it contains three main reefs and numerous...

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Spurn

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kilometres) and displayed a flash once every 20 seconds. In addition there were separate sector lights, two of which marked particular shoals or sandbanks, while...

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Duinen van Texel National Park

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in the past shoals "walked" toward the island, the last shoal to do so was Onrust in 1910. On the plains new dunes are being formed. On the newest dunes...

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Tide

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are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun)...

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