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mouth bar

mouth bar noun: a bar that forms in the middle of an estuary or of a channel in a river delta.

Noun

mouth bar (plural mouth bars)

  1. A bar that forms in the middle of an estuary or of a channel in a river delta.
    • 1980 [Burgess Publishing], George deVries Klein, Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels, 2nd Edition, 1982, International Human Resources Development Corp., page 111,
      The best targets for exploration for oil and gas in deltas are the distributary mouth bar sand complexes and...
    • In the axial zone of delta mouth bars, fluvial processes dominate.1991, D. J. P. Swift, S. Phillips, J. A. Thorne, “Sedimention on continental margins, IV: lithofacies and depositional systems”, in D. J. P. Swift, G. F. Oertel, R. W. Tillman, J. A. Thorne, editors...

Forms of mouth bar

pluralmouth bars

Questions about mouth bar

What does mouth bar mean?
Mouth bar means a bar that forms in the middle of an estuary or of a channel in a river delta.
What part of speech is mouth bar?
Mouth bar is a noun.
What is the plural of mouth bar?
The plural of mouth bar is mouth bars.

Words near mouth bar in the dictionary

  1. Moutai
  2. Moutajup
  3. moutan
  4. moutans
  5. mouth
  6. mouth bar
  7. mouth bars
  8. mouth breather
  9. mouth breathers
  10. mouth breathing
  11. mouth breathings

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