. Cooperative Gulf of Mexico estuarine inventory and study, Florida / J. Kneeland McNulty, William N. Lindall, Jr., and James E. Sykes. Estuarine biology The total open water area of all estuaries at high tide is 2,081,525 acres (842,393 ha), which is slightly greater than the area of America's largest estuary, Chesapeake Bay (2,071,680 acres = 838,409 ha). Table 1 also includes the diurnal (daily) range of the tide for various bays and segments of the coast. We used diurnal ranges rather than mean ranges because the latter are lacking for most of the coast. Tides are of two types: m
. Cooperative Gulf of Mexico estuarine inventory and study, Florida / J. Kneeland McNulty, William N. Lindall, Jr., and James E. Sykes. Estuarine biology The total open water area of all estuaries at high tide is 2,081,525 acres (842,393 ha), which is slightly greater than the area of America's largest estuary, Chesapeake Bay (2,071,680 acres = 838,409 ha). Table 1 also includes the diurnal (daily) range of the tide for various bays and segments of the coast. We used diurnal ranges rather than mean ranges because the latter are lacking for most of the coast. Tides are of two types: mixed diurnal and semidiurnal, but are predominantly semidiurnal from Florida Bay to Apalachicola Bay and diurnal from St. Joseph Bay to Perdido Bay (Marnier, 1954; Zetler and Hansen, 1970). The mean diurnal tidal range ( ft = m) is greater from Cape Sable to the Gordon River (at Naples) than on any other part of the coast; elsewhere, ranges of about ft ( m) are typical. Perdido Bay Choctawhatchee Bay. Lemon Bay Pine Island Sound iMMZL|S El! Estero P°ss ""TTslI Doctors Pass Old Tampa Bay Hillsborough Bay Tampa Bay Sarasota Bay System Charlotte Harbor Caloosahatchee River 6Rl Caxambas Pass Lostmans Rive •Gordon River -Mormon Key 4R| .Whitewater Bay Lake Ingraham——4^~\H^r31 Cape Sable' LA Floridc Bay Figure 2.—Index map. Numbers are Figure numbers; letters indicate left or right side of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McNulty, J. Kneeland; Lindall, William N; Sykes, James E. Seattle, Wash. : NOAA, National Marinke Fisheries Service ; Washington, D. C. : for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. G. P. O.
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