{"thcode":3,"term":{"code":100,"name":"bays","parent":525,"scope":"Indentations of a coastline or shoreline enclosing a part of a body of water; bodies of water partly surrounded by land. [USGS GNIS Feature Class Definitions <http:\/\/geonames.usgs.gov\/domestic\/feature_class.htm>]"},"uf":[{"name":"bahias","usewith":false},{"name":"coves","usewith":false},{"name":"embayments","usewith":false}],"bt":[{"code":525,"name":"hydrographic features","parent":1,"scope":"For natural bodies of water. For constructed waterways, reservoirs, and such, use 'hydrographic structures'."},{"code":1,"name":"Categories","parent":null,"scope":null}],"nt":[{"code":398,"name":"fjords","parent":100,"scope":"Long narrow  glacially-eroded inlets of the sea, U-shaped and steep-walled, generally several hundred meters deep, between high rocky cliffs or slopes along a mountainous coast. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]"}],"rt":[{"code":95,"name":"basins","parent":816,"scope":"Bowl-shaped, natural depressions in the surface of the land or ocean floor. [Adapted from USGS Circ 1048]"},{"code":111,"name":"bights","parent":816,"scope":"Long gradual bends or gentle curves, or slight crescent-shaped indentations, in the shoreline of an open coast or of a bay. [Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]"},{"code":189,"name":"channels","parent":525,"scope":"(a) Relatively narrow seas or stretches of water between two close landmasses and connecting two larger bodies of water; (b) Deeper parts of a moving body of water (as bays, estuaries, or straits) through which the main current flows or which affords the best passage through an area otherwise too shallow to navigate. [Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]"},{"code":361,"name":"estuaries","parent":525,"scope":"Regions of interaction between rivers and near-shore ocean waters, where tidal action and river flow mix fresh and salt water. These brackish water ecosystems shelter and feed marine life, birds, and wildlife.. [EPA Terms of Environment < http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/OCEPAterms\/>]"},{"code":473,"name":"gulfs","parent":525,"scope":"Largest of various forms of inlets of the sea; usually larger, more enclosed, and more deeply indented than bays. [Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]"},{"code":1236,"name":"wetlands","parent":112,"scope":"Vegetated areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water for a significant part of the year. The vegetation is adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. [USGS Circ 1048]"}]}