adjective
definition
Relating to the coast; on or near the coast, as a coastal town, a coastal breeze
Examples of coastal in a Sentence
The coastal districts average about 42 in.
The coastal zone is low, well-wooded and fertile.
After several failed attempts to communicate, they proceeded in silence to the nearest town, a coastal resort-like town.
Jessi froze, not completely connecting with the fact she stood in a place unlike the coastal southern California area.
The narrow coastal zone on the Pacific is only for m.
Adjacent to Grimsby on the east is the coastal watering-place of Cleethorpes.
Most of the crop is grown in the irrigated coastal valleys.
The second and marine type of the Jurassics occurs in Western Australia, on the coastal plain skirting the western foot of the western plateau.
This wealth of plant life is confined to the littoral and the coastal valleys, but the central valleys and the plateaux have, if not a varied flora, a considerable wealth of timber trees in every way superior to the flora inland in the same latitudes.
Although the timbers of commercial value are confined practically to the eastern and a portion of the western coastal belt and a few inland tracts of Australia, they constitute an important national asset.
In contrast with the rivers of these regions those of the Coastal Plain are sluggish, and toward their mouths expand into wide estuaries.
Living in a narrow coastal strip, they were busy traders, with little else to sustain them.
The first of these comprises chiefly the mines of the Hunter river districts; the second includes the Illawarra district, and, generally, the coastal regions to the south of Sydney, together with Berrima, on the tableland; and the third consists of the mountainous regions on the Great Western railway and extends as far as Dubbo.
The Mahommedan religion occurs among the coastal population.
Through most of the Coastal Plain Region, which extends inland from 80 to i 50 m., the country continues very level or only slightly undulating, and rises to the westward at the rate of little more than 1 ft.
The " Fall Line," the boundary between the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont Plateau, has a very irregular course across North Carolina, but lies in a general S.W.
But mixed with the oak and chestnut or higher up are considerable hickory, birch and maple; farther up the mountain sides are some hemlock and white pine; and on the swamp lands of the Coastal Plain are much cypress and some cedar, and on the Coastal Plain south of the Neuse there is much long-leaf pine from which resin is obtained.
Marine deposits were laid down over the south of the state after a submergence of the region; an uplift afterwards made of these deposits a coastal plain.
The rather level surface of the " worn down mountains " of the north of the state and the coastal plain beds of the southern and western parts are now dissected by rivers, which make most of the state a rolling or hilly country, without strong relief.
Various " scrubs " characterize the interior, differing very widely from the coastal scrubs.
The region between the lines of the two coastal systems is a much dissected plateau, imperfectly explored.
All forms of plankton are more abundant in the shallow coastal waters of relatively low salinity.
Corals would now grow luxuriantly in these shallow coastal waters of increasing temperature, forming reefs and extensive coral flats.
A peculiar feature of the hydrography of Tamaulipas is the series of coastal lagoons formed by the building of new beaches across the indentations of the coast.
The industries embrace granite quarries, wood-pulp factories, and factories for sugar, tobacco, curtains, travelling-bags, boots, &c. There are railway communications with Gothenburg and all parts of Sweden and regular coastal and steamer services.
The coastal plain consists in great part of sandy beaches, detritus formations, and partially submerged areas caused by uplifted beaches and obstructed river channels.
Parts of this coastal plain, however, have an elevation of 100 to 200 ft., are rolling and fertile in character, and terminate on the coast in a line of bluffs.
In Rio Grande do Sul, where two large lakes have been created by uplifted sand beaches, the coastal plain widens greatly, and is merged in an extensive open, rolling grassy plain, traversed by ridges of low hills (cuchillas), similar to the neighbouring republic of Uruguay.
There remains only the elevated valley of the Parahyba do Sul, lying between the so-called Serra das Vertentes of southern Minas Geraes and the Serra do Mar, and extending from the Serra da Bocaina, near the city of Sao Paulo, eastward to Cape Frio and the coastal plain north of that point.
Little is known of the country through which it flows, and its channel is broken by rapids and waterfalls where it descends to the coastal plain.
The former reach the coastal plain over long and gradual descents, and are navigable for considerable distances.
From the Sao Francisco to Cape Frio there are many short rivers rising on the slopes of the plateau and crossing the narrow coastal plain to the sea.
The navigable channels of these rivers are restricted to the coastal plain, except where a river has excavated for itself a valley back into the plateau.
South of Cape Frio there are no large rivers along the coast because of the proximity of the Serra do Mar - the coastal plain being very narrow and in places disappearing altogether.
In Rio Grande do Sul the Atlantic coastal plain extends westward more than half-way across the state, and is well watered by numerous streams flowing eastward to the Lagoa dos Patos.
The coastal plain is also intersected by lagoons, lakes and inland channels formed by uplifted beaches.
The coastal plain as far south as Santos is a region of high temperatures and great humidity.
The prevailing winds are the south-east trades, which have lost some of their moisture in rising from the coastal plain.
The deep-sea and coastal fisheries are important.
Effects of the cessation of colliery spoil dumping on coastal processes.
The official sponsor of this meeting is the International Geographical Union's Commission on Coastal Systems.
During the holiday, travel between locations is by coastal steamer, through mostly sheltered coastal waters.
From this superb location the property benefits from glorious country and coastal views that can be enjoyed from the large sunroom.
A remarkable land of coastal swamps, highland river valleys, even a glacier high in the central mountains.
The coastal plain is made up of mangrove swamps.
This time she's working in Georgia's steaming coastal swampland.
The immediate surrounding area included terrestrial, freshwater and coastal habitats.
Whilst likely to be of considerable interest to offshore boaters and coastal interests, there are also likely to implications for inland tidal waters.
The restaurant has a very bold contemporary design, and the food consists of the chef's creative, yet not untraditional, takes on many common continental and coastal menu items.
The eastern and larger part of the state belongs to the coastal plain, in great part low and swampy, with large areas of sand barrens, and broken by isolated groups and ranges of hills.