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In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water.
Different structures are referred to as banks in different fields of geography.
In limnology, a stream bank or river bank is the terrain alongside the Stream bed of a river, creek, or stream.
The descriptive terms left bank and right bank refer to the perspective of an observer looking downstream; a well-known example of this being the southern Rive Gauche and the northern Rive Droite of the river Seine defining parts of Paris. The of , , estuary, , or are also of interest in limnology and are sometimes referred to as banks. The grade of all these banks or shorelines can vary from vertical to a shallow slope.
In freshwater ecology, banks are of interest as the location of riparian . occur along upland and lowland river and stream beds. The ecology around and depending on a marsh, swamp, slough, or estuary, sometimes called a bank, is likewise studied in freshwater ecology.
Banks are also of interest in navigation, where the term can refer either to a barrier island or a submerged plateau, such as an ocean bank. A barrier island is a long narrow island composed of sand and forming a barrier between an island lagoon or sound and the ocean. A submerged plateau is a relatively flat topped elevation of the sea floor at shallow depth — generally less than — typically on the continental shelf or near an island.
(1995). 9780486685885, Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486685885 The bank consists of the sides of the channel, between which the streamflow is confined. Stream banks are of particular interest in fluvial geography, which studies the processes associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and created by them. Bankfull discharge is a discharge great enough to fill the channel and overtop the banks.
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