{"thcode":62,"term":{"code":"GC-109","name":"Inlet","parent":"GC-011","scope":"Geoform: Inlets are narrow constrictions through which water flows. The term is commonly used to describe gaps between barrier islands that allow tidal exchange with the adjacent?more enclosed?bays, lagoons, or marshes."},"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-111","name":"Relict Tidal Inlet","parent":"GC-109","scope":"Geoform Type: A channel remnant that is left from a former tidal inlet. The channel was cut off or abandoned by infilling from migrating shore sediments."},{"code":"GC-110","name":"Tidal Inlet","parent":"GC-109","scope":"Geoform Type: Any inlet through which water alternately floods landward, with the rising tide, and ebbs seaward, with the falling tide (Jackson 1997)."}],"rt":[]}