In a given harbor, what general rule often determines
where the shoals are? Explain your answer. [1 pt]

"Bart" .@. wrote in message ...
| In a given harbor, what general rule often determines
| where the shoals are? Explain your answer. [1 pt]


Places where there's little or no current. This allows silt and sand and mud to settle outta the water.
Places with current get scoured and the silt and sand and mud doesn't have a chance to settle to the bottom.

Cheers,
Ellen

Bart wrote:
In a given harbor, what general rule often determines
where the shoals are? Explain your answer. [1 pt]

Shoals are found where the water is shallow, or alternatively, where
the bottom is high.

Right, Bart?


// Walt

"Bart" .@. wrote in message
...
In a given harbor, what general rule often determines
where the shoals are? Explain your answer. [1 pt]

Shoals are usually found behind the markers.

SBV

OzOne wrote in message
| Not bad.
| Now tell us what landforms or shape of the shoreline would contribute
| to shoaling.



Thanks. The shape of land would be points (promontories?). They make a lee in the currents and the slow current
lets the suspended silt, sand and mud settle out. You can see lots of points (moles?) being built along the beaches in
Florida on the east coast side. They keep all the sand from being washed away because they slow down the current
going past. They make eddies. When you sail on a river it's usually deeper on the outside of the bends. The insides
are shoaling up. This is because water slows down on the inside and it speeds up on the outside.

Cheers,
Ellen

Yeah Scot,

Usually where the dredges are working. If there are canal marker, there
are shoals.


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As Bart stated, "A given Harbor." Not sure but I think Bart was
thinking of a harbor being feed by a stream or creek. The outlet or
"Delta" is where the shoals form


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Bart wrote:
In a given harbor, what general rule often determines
where the shoals are? Explain your answer. [1 pt]

In a harbor you look for different surface condition, Shorter wave
lengths, no waves, ect, waves on top of shallows are usually of a
shorter wave length and higher, or you may see calm in a shallow vs
waves in other areas.

Joe

"Ellen MacArthur" wrote

"Bart" .@. wrote
| In a given harbor, what general rule often determines
| where the shoals are? Explain your answer. [1 pt]


Places where there's little or no current. This allows silt and sand
and mud to settle outta the water.
Places with current get scoured and the silt and sand and mud doesn't have
a chance to settle to the bottom.

Cheers,
Ellen

Good answer Neal. Worth a point.

But there is more to it than this.

Have you looked at multiple harbors in the same general
area and compared them? What other conclusions can
you draw?

"Walt" wrote

Shoals are found where the water is shallow, or alternatively, where the
bottom is high.

Reminds me a a girl I used to date.