Coastal and Oceanic Landform (26.Inlet)

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Bay at the Gulf of Salerno

• An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water.

• Leading to an enclosed body of water, such as

                                                 sound

                                                 bay

                                                 lagoon

                                                 marsh

• In sea coasts, an inlet usually to the actual connection between a bay & ocean.

• It is often called an "entrance" or a recession in the shore of a sea, lake, or river.

• Inlet created by glaciation is a fjord.

• It is not always in mountainous,coastlines & also in montane lakes.

• Complexes of large inlets or fjords may be called sounds.;

 e.g., Puget Sound

          Howe Sound

          Karmsund

• Some fjord-type inlets are called canals;

e.g., Portland Canal

         Lynn Canal

         Hood Canal

• Some are channels;

 e.g., Dean Channel

          Douglas Channel

          Amsterdam Channel