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==Overview== [[File:ManaInlet II.JPG|thumb|300px|The [[Jersey Shore]] extends inland from the [[Atlantic Ocean]] into its many inlets, including [[Manasquan Inlet]], looking westward at [[sunset]] from the [[jetty]] at [[Manasquan, New Jersey|Manasquan]], [[New Jersey]], U.S.]] In [[marine geography]], the term "inlet" usually refers to either the actual [[channel (geography)|channel]] between an [[enclosed bay]] and the [[open ocean]] and is often called an "entrance", or a significant recession in the shore of a sea, lake or large river. A certain kind of inlet created by past [[glaciation]] is a [[fjord]], typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in [[montane ecology|montane]] lakes. Multi-arm complexes of large inlets or [[fjord]]s may be called [[sound (geography)|sound]]s, e.g., [[Puget Sound]], [[Howe Sound]], [[Karmsund]] (''sund'' is [[Scandinavian languages|Scandinavian]] for "sound"). Some fjord-type inlets are called [[canal]]s, e.g., [[Portland Canal]], [[Lynn Canal]], [[Hood Canal]], and some are channels, e.g., [[Dean Channel]] and [[Douglas Channel]]. Tidal amplitude, wave intensity, and wave direction are all factors that influence sediment flux in inlets.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Chen|first1=Jia-Lin|last2=Hsu|first2=Tian-Jian|last3=Shi|first3=Fengyan|last4=Raubenheimer|first4=Britt|last5=Elgar|first5=Steve|date=2015-06-01|title=Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling of New River Inlet (NC) under the interaction of tides and waves|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans|language=en|volume=120|issue=6|pages=4028β4047|doi=10.1002/2014JC010425|bibcode=2015JGRC..120.4028C|issn=2169-9291|hdl=1912/7468|hdl-access=free}}</ref> On low slope sandy coastlines, inlets often separate [[Barrier island|barrier islands]] and can form as the result of [[Tropical cyclone|storm events]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Safak|first1=Ilgar|last2=Warner|first2=John C.|last3=List|first3=Jeffrey H.|date=2016-12-01|title=Barrier island breach evolution: Alongshore transport and bay-ocean pressure gradient interactions|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans|language=en|volume=121|issue=12|pages=8720β8730|doi=10.1002/2016jc012029|bibcode=2016JGRC..121.8720S|issn=2169-9291|hdl=1912/8812|hdl-access=free}}</ref> [[Longshore drift|Alongshore sediment transport]] can cause inlets to close if the action of [[tidal currents]] flowing through an inlet do not flush accumulated sediment out of the inlet.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Swart|first1=H. E. de|last2=Zimmerman|first2=J. T. F.|date=2009|title=Morphodynamics of Tidal Inlet Systems|journal=Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics|volume=41|issue=1|pages=203β229|doi=10.1146/annurev.fluid.010908.165159|bibcode=2009AnRFM..41..203D}}</ref>
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