Narrows

For the settlement formerly known as Narrows, see Grand Rivers, Kentucky. For other uses, see The Narrows (disambiguation).

A narrows is a restricted land or water passages. Most commonly a narrows is a strait,[1] though it can also be a water gap.

A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted bed of hard rock lying between two softer beds: "[i]f the hard beds are vertical, so that their outcrop does not shift as erosion proceeds, a narrows is developed".[2] Like a dam, this "raises the water level for a short distance upriver".[3] A narrows is also typically a good location for trapping migrating fish.[4][5][6] Furthermore, a narrows is "an important topographical feature for wind mixing",[7] an effect where a wind chill may form ice while the surrounding temperature remains above freezing.

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References

  1. "narrow". Merriam-Webster Dictionary.: "a narrow part or passage; specifically a strait connecting two bodies of water —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction".
  2. Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson, Engineering Geology (1915), p. 278.
  3. Richard T. T. Forman, Urban Ecology: Science of Cities (2014), p. 195.
  4. Roy L. Carlson, Luke Dalla Bona, Early Human Occupation in British Columbia (2011), p. 65.
  5. Frank Tough, As Their Natural Resources Fail: Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930 (2011), p. 156.
  6. Matthew Stein, When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance (2008), p. 158
  7. Howard J. Freeland, David M. Farmer, Colin D. Levings, Fjord Oceanography (1980), p. 216.
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