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A narrows or narrow (used interchangeably but usually in the plural form), is a restricted land or water passage. Most commonly a narrows is a strait, though it can also be a water gap.
A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted bed of
A narrows or narrow (used interchangeably but usually in the plural form), is a restricted land or water passage. Most commonly a narrows is a strait, though it can also be a water gap.
A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted bed of hard rock
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lying between two softer beds: " the hard beds are vertical, so that their outcrop
An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth and other terrestrial planets.
Features
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does not shift as erosion proceeds, a narrows is developed". Like a dam, this "raises the water level for a short distance upriver". A narrows is also typically a good location for trapping migrating fish. Furthermore, a narrows is "an important topographical feature for wind mixing",Howard J. Freeland, David M. Farmer, Colin D. Levings, ''Fjord Oceanography'' (1980), p. 216. an effect where a wind chill may form ice while the surrounding temperature remains above freezing.
See also
* Water gap * Buffalo Narrows * The Narrows, which separatesStaten Island
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from Brooklyn
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and connects the upper and lower sections of New York Bay.
* The Narrows, which is the narrowest section of Zion Canyon in Zion National Park, Utah
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