bar

ENVO:00000167 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT SEEDED

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. Bars tend to be long and narrow (linear) and develop where a current (or waves) promote deposition of granular material, resulting in localized shallowing (shoaling) of the water. Bars can appear in the sea, in a lake, or in a river. They are typically composed of sand, although could be of any granular matter that the moving water has access to and is capable of shifting around (for example, soil, silt, gravel, cobble, shingle, or even boulders). The grain size of the material comprising a bar is related: to the size of the waves or the strength of the currents moving the material, but the availability of material to be worked by waves and currents is also important. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

Broader habitats

• hydrographic feature ENVO:00000012

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Also called

• Shoal — ENVO
• Shoal — PREGO
• Shoalic — PREGO
• ball — ENVO
• ball — PREGO
• bank — ENVO
• bank (hydrographic) — PREGO
• banks (seafloor) — PREGO
• bar (physiographic) — PREGO
• barrier beach — ENVO
• barrier beach — PREGO
• barrier beaches — PREGO
• barrier beachic — PREGO
• barrier island — ENVO
• bay bar — PREGO
• bay baric — PREGO
• bay barrier — PREGO
• bay barriers — PREGO
• bay bars — PREGO
• bay head bar — PREGO
• bay head baric — PREGO
• bay head bars — PREGO
• baymouth bar — PREGO
• baymouth baric — PREGO
• baymouth bars — PREGO
• cuspate bar — PREGO
• cuspate baric — PREGO
• cuspate bars — PREGO
• cuspate spit — ENVO
• cuspate spit — PREGO
• cuspate spits — PREGO
• hook — ENVO
• hook — PREGO
• hooked spit — ENVO
• hooked spit — PREGO
• hooked spits — PREGO
• longshore bar — ENVO
• longshore bar — PREGO
• longshore baric — PREGO
• longshore bars — PREGO
• marsh bar — ENVO
• marsh bar — PREGO
• marsh baric — PREGO
• marsh bars — PREGO
• offshore bar — ENVO
• offshore bar — PREGO
• offshore baric — PREGO
• offshore bars — PREGO
• point — ENVO
• point — PREGO
• points — PREGO
• recurved spit — ENVO
• recurved spit — PREGO
• recurved spits — PREGO
• sand bank — ENVO
• sand bank — PREGO
• sand bankic — PREGO
• sand banks — PREGO
• sand bar — ENVO
• sand bar — PREGO
• sand baric — PREGO
• sand bars — PREGO
• sand hom — ENVO
• sand hom — PREGO
• sand homs — PREGO
• sand lobe — ENVO
• sand lobe — PREGO
• sand lobes — PREGO
• sand spit — ENVO
• sand spit — PREGO
• sand spits — PREGO
• sandbar — ENVO
• sandbar — PREGO
• sandbaric — PREGO
• sandbars — PREGO
• seafloor feature — ENVO
• shoal — ENVO
• shoal patches — ENVO
• shoal patches — PREGO
• shoal patcheses — PREGO
• shoals — ENVO
• shoals — PREGO
• shoalses — PREGO
• shoalsic — PREGO
• spit — ENVO
• tongue — ENVO
• tongue — PREGO
• tongue (seafloor) — ENVO
• tongue (seafloor) — PREGO
• tongues — PREGO
• transverse bar — ENVO
• transverse bar — PREGO
• transverse baric — PREGO
• transverse bars — PREGO
• undersea shoal — ENVO
• undersea shoal — PREGO
• undersea shoalic — PREGO
• undersea shoals — PREGO

Provenance

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