featureClass | featureCode | longDescription | places | shortDescription |
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H | STMB | a conspicuously curved or bent segment of a stream | View relation | stream bend |
H | PNDNI | View relation | intermittent salt pond(s) | |
H | CNLD | an artificial waterway carrying water away from a wetland or from drainage ditches | View relation | drainage canal |
H | DCK | a waterway between two piers, or cut into the land for the berthing of ships | View relation | dock(s) |
H | LGNX | View relation | section of lagoon | |
H | ESTY | a funnel-shaped stream mouth or embayment where fresh water mixes with sea water under tidal influences | View relation | estuary |
H | PNDSI | View relation | intermittent ponds | |
H | CAPG | a dome-shaped mass of glacial ice covering an area of mountain summits or other high lands; smaller than an ice sheet | View relation | icecap |
H | FLLS | a perpendicular or very steep descent of the water of a stream | View relation | waterfall(s) |
H | RFX | View relation | section of reef | |
H | SEA | a large body of salt water more or less confined by continuous land or chains of islands forming a subdivision of an ocean | View relation | sea |
H | STMS | bodies of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land | View relation | streams |
H | OVF | an area of breaking waves caused by the meeting of currents or by waves moving against the current | View relation | overfalls |
H | WLLQ | View relation | abandoned well | |
H | MRSH | a wetland dominated by grass-like vegetation | View relation | marsh(es) |
H | STMI | View relation | intermittent stream | |
H | WADS | valleys or ravines, bounded by relatively steep banks, which in the rainy season become watercourses; found primarily in North Africa and the Middle East | View relation | wadies |
H | LGN | a shallow coastal waterbody, completely or partly separated from a larger body of water by a barrier island, coral reef or other depositional feature | View relation | lagoon |
H | WADX | View relation | section of wadi | |
H | DTCH | a small artificial watercourse dug for draining or irrigating the land | View relation | ditch |