Difference between shoreline and hydrography

shoreline

Definitions

noun

  1. a boundary line between land and water

Examples

Beautiful, green, the remoteness of Exmoor counterpointed by the glorious surf of the Atlantic beaches, coast roads with views of the craggy shoreline.

It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you.

It lives subtidally (from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged), or occasionally intertidally (the area that is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide).

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hydrography

Definitions

noun

  1. the science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation

Examples

He was the founder of modern oceanography and hydrography.

Hydrography One of the most striking features of the hilly terrain of viticultural Champagne is its network of rivers and canals.

All input hypsography and hydrography data were appended and trimmed to cover the areas for each processing block.

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