Litus (-oris, n.) est finis maris vel oceani,[1] regio continentis vel insulae ubi aqua et terra conveniunt,[2] vel linea quae fines terrae et oceani vel lacús est.[3] Exactus autem linea quae linea litoralis vere appellari potest paradoxi litoralis causa determinari non potest.

Praeruptum orae occidentalis Novae Zelandiae litus.
Saxosum Portus Cavi Lusitaniae litus, spumeum aestum (surf) monstrans.
Somaliae est longissimum litus in Africa.
Despectus in litus arenosum Forae in insula Maris Septentrionalis.

Litus pelagicum est litus quod oceano aperto adiacet, contra regionem protectam in sinu vel portu; ora autem est regio quae alicui magno corpori aquae adiacet, oceanis lacubusque non exceptis.

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Notae recensere

  1. Anglice "Litus, the shore as the end of the sea, the strand; ora, the shore as the end of the land, the coast" (Ogilvie 1901: 252.
  2. "Coast," The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, ed. 4a (2000) Archivum.
  3. "Coastline," Merriam-Webster, Textus interretialis.

Bibliographia recensere

  • Burke, Lauretta A., Yumiko Kura, Ken Kassem, Carmen Revenga, Mark Spalding, et Don McAllister. 2001. "Coastal Ecosystems." In Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems, ed. Carolynne Hutter. World Resources Institute. ISBN 978-1-56973-458-2. PDF.
  • Davidson, Jon P., Walter E. Reed, et Paul M. Davis. 2002. Exploring Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology. Upper Saddle River Novae Caesareae: Prentice-Hall. ISDN 978-0-13-018372-9. Archivum.
  • Easterbrook, Don J. 1999. Surface Processes and Landforms. Ed. 2a. Upper Saddle River Nocae Caesareae: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-860958-0.
  • Fischer, Norbert, Susan Müller-Wusterwitz, et Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber, eds. 2007. Inszenierungen der Küste. Berolini: Reimer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-496-02800-0
  • Haslett, Simon K. 2009. Coastal Systems. Ed. 2a. Introduction to Environment. Novi Eboraci: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-44060-8.
  • Kelletat, Dieter. 1999. Physische Geographie der Meere und Küsten: Eine Einführung. Ed. 2a. Teubner-Studienbücher der Geographie. Stutgartiae: Teubner. ISBN 3-519-13426-8.
  • Mandelbrot, Benoit B. 1983. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Novi Eboraci: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 0716711869. Textus.
  • Ogilvie, Robert. 1901. Horae Latinae: Studies in Synonyms and Syntax, ed. Alexander Souter. Londinii, Novi Eboraci, Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Company.

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