Assertion: estuary's water | /r/HasProperty | diluted by freshwater
Facets:
value: from inland
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Estuaries are not always associated with drainage from land; but our understanding of estuarine dynamics was formed by pioneering research efforts in the lower reaches of rivers, and the definition of the term estuary is still often based on the assumption that the water of estuaries has to be diluted by freshwater.
text: Pritchard (1952, 1967), using salinity as a criterion, provides that an estuary “is a partially enclosed body of water in a coastal area, which has a free connection with the sea and where it is possible to measure the water diluted with fresh water from inland.