The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

As the waters surged, they carried a dense, salty fluid which formed a network of sea-floor channels that are almost constantly active, even today.

Around 5, 000 BP the waters of the Saimaa Lake penetrated Salpausselkä and formed a new outlet, River Vuoksi, entering Lake Ladoga in the northwestern corner and raising its level by 1 – 2 m.

Banded iron formations have been taken as unavoidable evidence for global ice cover, since they require dissolved iron ions and anoxic waters to form ; however, the limited extent of the Neoproterozoic banded iron deposits means that they may not have formed in frozen oceans, but instead in inland seas.

Chains of such structures are common, as are steep elevations and smooth, concrete-like clay deposits formed by the rapid evaporation of flood waters in the same area for a number of years.

They formed the core of what was envisioned as a " guerrilla amphibious organization of Americans and Chinese operating from coastal waters, lakes and rivers employing small steamboats and sampans.

The plains of Lombardy, formed from alluvial deposits, can be divided into the Alta – an upper, permeable ground zone in the north and a lower zone characterized – the Bassa – by the so-called line of fontanili ( the spring waters rising on impermeable ground ).

Between the Atlantic and Polar waters, a front called the Polar Front is formed.

The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.

Tens of millions of years ago, continental plate movement formed a land-free gap around Antarctica, allowing formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current | ACC which keeps warm waters away from Antarctica.

Lake Zurich is formed by the river Linth, which, rising in the glaciers of the Tödi Range in Glarus, which was diverted by the Escher canal ( completed in 1811 ) into the Lake Walen, there by means of the Linth canal ( completed in 1816 ), its waters are carried to the east end of the Lake of Zurich.

The water which was not absorbed formed the seas, so that the waters of the flood still exist.

The reef was formed in the Devonian period when the reeding waters allowed the organisms to build a reef up to thick.

The Surfrider Foundation was formed in 1984 by a group of surfers gathered to protect of coastal waters from Marina Del Rey through Malibu to Ventura County, and represent the surfing community.

A group of men formed the Climax Association in 1883 based on the possibilities of the “ health benefits ” of the waters from the main spring and seven others located nearby.

It is formed from waters drained off the arable farmed fields.

The upper fall is formed by the swift waters of Yosemite Creek, which, after meandering through Eagle Creek Meadow, hurl themselves over the edge of a hanging valley in a spectacular and deafening show of force.

After killing five of the participants and arresting 47 others, Legrasse interrogated the prisoners and learned " the central idea of their loathsome faith ": " They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men ... and ... formed a cult which had never died ... hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R ' lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.

" The research shows that some mudstones may have formed in fast-moving waters: " Mudstones can be deposited under more energetic conditions than widely assumed, requiring a reappraisal of many geologic records.

It is glacial ( Weichsel glaciation ) seabed, its topography flat with few hills, and characterized by South-East to North-West running rivers, which were formed by waters at the end of the glaciation.

The island was formed when the waters of the Chagres River were dammed to form the lake.

Travertine is a terrestrial sedimentary rock, formed by the precipitation of carbonate minerals from solution in ground and surface waters, and / or geothermally heated hot-springs.

Modern travertine is formed from geothermally heated supersaturated alkaline waters, with raised pCO < sub > 2 </ sub > ( see partial pressure ).

He hired armed vessels to patrol the colony's waters and contributed financially to New York's colonial defenses, which formed a bulwark against the possibility of French and Indian incursions into Virginia.

Lake Nasser's waters fill the area through Lower Nubia ( Upper Egypt and northern Sudan ) within the narrow canyon between the cliffs of sandstone and granite created by the flow of the river over many centuries.

It refers to late medieval navigation jargon, when captains of the Hanseatic trading fleets would compare the Danish Straits to a hole so narrow that even a cat would have difficulty squeezing its way through on account of the many reefs and shallow waters.

Iraq's egress to the gulf is narrow and easily blockaded consisting of the marshy river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, where the east bank is held by Iran.

The wildlife of the Persian Gulf is diverse, and entirely unique due to the gulf's geographic distribution and its isolation from the international waters only breached by the narrow Strait of Hormuz.

The name " Quebec " comes from a Mi ' kmaq word k ' webeq meaning " where the waters get narrow " and originally referred to the area around Quebec City, where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap.

A line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island in latitude 10 ° 48 ' N, longitude 92 ° 24 ' E and thence along the Southwest limit of the Burma Sea

A line running from Oedjong Raja () in Sumatra to Poeloe Bras ( Breuëh ) and on through the Western Islands of the Nicobar Group to Sandy Point in Little Andaman Island, in such a way that all the narrow waters appertain to the Burma Sea.

The Eastern limit of the Bay of Bengal line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman Islands | Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island.

In the winter, they move to offshore, deeper waters under thick pack ice, surfacing in narrow fissures in the sea ice, or leads.

A line running from Nosyappu Saki ( Cape Noshap, 43 ° 23 ' N ) in the Island of Hokusyû ( Yezo ) through the Kuril or Tisima Islands to Cape Lopatka ( South point of Kamchatka ) in such a way that all the narrow waters between Hokusyû and Kamchatka are included in the Sea of Okhotsk.

A line running from Kabuch Point () in the Alaskan Peninsula, through the Aleutian Islands to the South extremes of the Komandorski Islands and on to Cape Kamchatka in such a way that all the narrow waters between Alaska and Kamchatka are included in the Bering Sea.

The people on this narrow strip of land struggled against the waters of the North Sea from the west, and the waters of the IJ and the Haarlem Lake from the east.

This movement has resulted in the formation of the Peru-Chile Trench, which lies beyond a narrow band of coastal waters off the northern two-thirds of the country.

* Falls of Lora, also in Scotland is an unusual rapids in the sea that is created when the waters in Loch Etive pour out through the narrow mouth of the loch over a rocky shelf.

A land there is, shrunk within narrow bounds, which repels twin seas, and single in itself, is lashed by two-fold waters.

Formation of barrier beaches partially encloses the estuary with only narrow inlets allowing contact with the ocean waters.

Material is washed down the coast by longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment in the sheltered waters inside the mouth of the Humber estuary.

The bay is long and narrow so its waters are significantly more protected than those of the open lake.

Indians assisted us over the portage with our heavy articles on their horses, the waters is divided into Several narrow chanels which pass through a hard black rock forming Islands of rocks at this Stage of the water, on those Islands of rocks as well as at and about their Lodges I observe great numbers of Stacks of pounded Salmon neetly preserved in the following manner, i e after Suffiently Dried it is pounded between two Stones fine, and put into a species of basket neetly made of grass and rushes of better than two feet long and one foot Diamiter, which basket is lined with the Skin of Salmon Stretched and dried for the purpose, in theis it is pressed down as hard as is possible, when full they Secure the open part with the fish Skins across which they fasten tho the loops of the basket that part very Securely, and then on a Dry Situation they Set those baskets the Corded part up, their common Custom is to Set 7 as close as they can Stand and 5 on the top of them, and secure them with mats which is raped around them and made fast with cords and Covered also with mats, those 12 baskets of from 90 to 100 w. each form a Stack.

Except for this narrow land connection Thyholm was surrounded by the waters of the Limfjord, which separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy on which Thyholm is located from the Jutland peninsula to the south.

The city is the main inland port of the Grand Traverse Bay ; a long, natural harbor separated from the waters of Lake Michigan by the Leelanau Peninsula, and divided longitudinally almost evenly by a narrow peninsula of tiered hillsides and farmland called Old Mission Peninsula.

In 1818 a canal, which was dug to drain spring flood waters from Lake Suvanto ( now Lake Sukhodolskoye, a 40-km long narrow lake in the eastern part of the Isthmus ) into Lake Ladoga, unexpectedly eroded and turned into the Taipaleenjoki ( now Burnaya River ).

Occasionally it is found close to land, in waters as shallow as, mainly around mid-ocean islands such as Hawaii, or in areas where the continental shelf is narrow and there is access to nearby deep water.