{"thcode":62,"term":{"code":"GC-014","name":"Bar","parent":"GC-011","scope":"Geoform: A relatively shallow place (in a stream, lake, sea, or other body of water) that is typically a submerged ridge, or bank consisting of (or covered) by sand or other unconsolidated material?but may also be composed of rock or other material (modified from Jackson 1997)."},"uf":[],"bt":[{"code":"GC-011","name":"Geologic","parent":"GC-C052","scope":"Geoform Origin: Geologic geoforms are formed by the abiotic processes of uplift, erosion, volcanism, deposition, fluid seepage, and material movement. ..."},{"code":"GC-C052","name":"Geoform (levels 1 and 2 subcomponents)","parent":"GC-C005","scope":null},{"code":"GC-C005","name":"Geoform","parent":"root","scope":null},{"code":"root","name":"CMECS","parent":null,"scope":"Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard: Category terms encompassing waters from the head of tide or inland incursion of ocean salinity to the splash zone of the coasts to the deepest portions of the oceans and the deep waters of the Great Lakes."}],"nt":[{"code":"GC-021","name":"Bay Mouth Bar","parent":"GC-014","scope":"Geoform Type: A bar of sand or gravel extending partially or entirely across the mouth of a bay. It usually connects two headlands, thus straightening the coast."},{"code":"GC-022","name":"Longshore Bar","parent":"GC-014","scope":"Geoform Type: A low sand ridge, built chiefly by wave action, occurring at some distance from and generally parallel with the shoreline, being submerged at least by high tides, and typically separated from the beach by an intervening trough."},{"code":"GC-023","name":"Point Bar","parent":"GC-014","scope":"Geoform Type: Low, arcuate, subaerial ridges of sand developed adjacent to an inlet and formed by the lateral accretion or movement of the channel."},{"code":"GC-024","name":"Relict Longshore Bar","parent":"GC-014","scope":"Geoform Type: A narrow, elongate, coarse-textured ridge that once rose near to, or barely above, a pluvial or glacial lake or other body of water and extended generally parallel to the shore but was separated from it by an intervening trough or lagoon; both the bar and lagoon are now relict features (Jackson 1997)."}],"rt":[]}