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Liman (landform)

Landsat satellite photo of limans along the Black Sea coast
Liman forming the Dnieper River and Southern Bug river estuaries
Dniester Liman forming the Dniester river estuary

A liman (Russian: лиман) is an enlarged estuary formed as a lagoon at the wide mouth of one or several rivers, where flow is nearly fully or partially constrained by a mouth bar of sediments (peresyp), as in the Dniester Liman or the Razelm liman. A liman can be maritime (the bar being created by the current of a sea) or fluvial (the bar being created by the slowed or turned flow of a sediment-saturated river).[1] The term describes many wet estuaries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov; a synonymous term guba (губа) is used in Russian sources for insignificantly blocked estuaries of the Russian shores in the north.[2]

Water in a liman is brackish with a variable salinity: during periods of low fresh-water intake, wide-mouthed, deep examples will be greatly saline from inflow of sea water and evaporation.

  1. ^ (in Romanian) Mihai Ielenicz (ed., 1999): Dicționar de geografie fizică, Corint publ., Bucharest, 1999 ; Grigore Antipa (1941) : Marea Neagră, Romanian academy press, Bucharest, 1941, pp. 55-64, and Petre Gâștescu, Vasile Sencu (1968) : Împărăția limanelor, Meridiane publ., Bucharest.
  2. ^ "лимáн" Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary in Russian
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