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US
/nɝˈɪtɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast
neritic fauna
neritic fauna -
of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep
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neritic oil
How To Use neritic In A Sentence
- The corpses of the neritic animals and of those that swim between the two waters are the direct or indirect sustenance of the abyssal fauna. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
- The biologist devoted most of his time, meanwhile, to the whaling industry, there being no less than seven stations on the island; he also made collections of the neritic fauna, and, accompanied by the photographer, studied the bird life and the habits of the sea – elephants along the east coast. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
- The shelf has neritic phytoplankton and zooplankton communities, somewhat separated from the offshore areas while receiving variable influence from the offshore environment. Faroe Plateau large marine ecosystem
- Before and after the late Paleocene thermal maximum, upwelling and biological productivity were less intense, and seafloor dysoxia was restricted to neritic parts of the basin. Bürger and Cubasch: Are multiproxy climate reconstructions robust? « Climate Audit
- Their depositional environment varies from outer neritic to upper or middle bathyal.
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- The occurrence higher in the succession of nummulites and neritic fossils indicates overall shallowing upwards.
- After a short erosion interval, rapid subsidence started to produce contemporaneous neritic limestone and shallow bathyal marl again.
- Variability of pelagic fish stocks off California in Proceedings of the expert consultation to examine changes in abundance and species composition of neritic fish resources. California Current large marine ecosystem
- In the highest, is the so-called neritic zone, -- the oceanic surface, diaphanous and luminous, far from any coast. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel