What is a small strip of water that reaches from sea to lake into the shore land?

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Last Answer : (B) Sea walls, bulk heads and revetments

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Last Answer : Narrow strip of land dividing two oceans

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Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- GO DOWN

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Last Answer : (D) All the above

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Last Answer : (C) Groins

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Last Answer : (D) All of the above

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Last Answer : (C) Is a current parallel to the shore, caused due to tangential component of the wind

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Last Answer : (D) All of the above

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Last Answer : (D) None of these

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Last Answer : (D) Sea wall with concave face

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Last Answer : (A) Groynes

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Last Answer : (C) The swell of the sea breaking on the shore or reefs

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Last Answer : Answer: Option D

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Last Answer : Lagoon

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Last Answer : (c) the water level is 10 metres above mean sea level or an arbitrary 'zero' level

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Last Answer : It is the river's floodplain.

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Last Answer : Isthmus

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Last Answer : Isthmus

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