Estuary vs Basin - What's the difference?
estuary | basin |
Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge.
An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
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, title=Runaway Devils Lake
, volume=100, issue=1, page=46
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
As nouns the difference between estuary and basin
is that estuary is coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge while basin is a bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.As a proper noun Basin is
a CDP in Montana.estuary
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* Estuary Englishbasin
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(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin' is an endorheic, or closed, ' basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}