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liman
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landform, formed at the mouth of a river, where flow is blocked by a bar of sediments
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Landsat satellite photo of limans along the Black Sea coast Liman forming the Dnieper River and Southern Bug river estuaries Dniester Liman forming the Dniester river estuary A liman is a wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers where flow is constrained by a sediment bar created by sea or river current. The hydrological term comes from the Russian language and is used in various national and regional languages for estuary lagoons all around the Black Sea and Sea of Azov coasts.
A liman is classified as either maritime or fluvial: "maritime" if its sediment bar was formed by sea current; "fluvial" if the bar is created by obstructed flow in a saturated river.