| 单词 | mud flat |
| 例句 | At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Jemmy watched the prince slowly raise himself off the mud flat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The fiddler crab, that small and picturesque crustacean whose hordes move over mud flats or sand flats like grazing cattle, has no defense against the sprayers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He saw no thousands on the mud flats, and there were none in the pastures from which he had come. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Two others had died in a fall storm and washed up on the mud flats of Lanheedron Island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Slender and sinuous, olive green, mahogany red, scarlet, and ash, they were weighted with broad, gleaming leaves and velvet berries and shaded the beach stones and mud flats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z With the tide out, a wide mud flat lay exposed. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The farm carts, carrying food and fuel to Boston, were still coming in over the mud flats connecting the town with the mainland. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the mud flats small fountains erupted, dozens of them, spurting two feet or more, then again, then lower, then dwindling and stopping. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Beyond him, in the semi-darkness, running across mud flats, was the one road which connected Boston with the mainland. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The tide was coming in and the mud flat had shrunk to the width of a path. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z A friend in Mumbai recommended that I check out the flamingos dancing in the stinky, mucky mud flats of Sewri. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z We want a new 230,000-square-foot concourse with its own Admirals Club, and so we bulldozed hangars and an office building to make room on DCA’s precious slip of mud flat. Goodbye to Gate 35X, cursed portal to the rest of America 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z It was an act of sheer will to construct a city from nothing on the slippery mud flats of the Camargue marshlands in the mid-13th century. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In the first two days, we hiked through narrow slot canyons, dry riverbeds and mud flats. In Baja California, swimming with the whale sharks, and more The novel opens at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, where Anne “lies sprawled among the dead who carpet the frozen mud flats, time slipping past, her thoughts dissolving.” Hitler Had Food Tasters, Anne Frank Lived and Maud Baum Wanted to Be Heard 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Our guide, Harm Jan Wilbrink, warned us that the stone embankment leading to the sprawling mud flats might be slippery. In the Netherlands, exploring the Wadden Sea — on foot 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z We breakfasted surrounded by miles of mud flats and purple mussel beds accented with bright-green sea lettuce, enjoying views of the mountains rising from the near and far shores. U.S. Issue: It?s a Bear?s World in Kodiak, Alaska 2011-05-13T20:16:28Z I let the others sing out to bears, too preoccupied about losing my balance on the narrow beams that traversed the mud flats with 25 pounds strapped to my back. Explorer: Where Alaskan Adventurers Lay Their Heads 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z Our pace was slow enough to enjoy watching flocks of gulls, plovers, spoonbills and more birds feed on the vast mud flats. Each summer, theater fans descend on an unspoiled Dutch island 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z At times, hundreds of people were walking the mud flats a day. In the Netherlands, exploring the Wadden Sea — on foot 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z A parade of fluffy gray flamingo chicks, gathered on a salty mud flat, gallop to music so jaunty they seem about to break into a kick line. With the Netflix Series “Our Planet,” David Attenborough Delivers an Urgent Message 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Built on mud flats on the eve of World War II, DCA was hemmed in by river, city and restricted sky. Goodbye to Gate 35X, cursed portal to the rest of America 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The unofficial town watering hole, with a stellar view of the water and mud flats. Each summer, theater fans descend on an unspoiled Dutch island 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z There are no sandy beaches here; instead the refuge is made up of mostly tidal marshes, mud flats, tidal pools, brushy fields and swamps. Top 10 US mid-Atlantic national and state parks 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The “wad” refers to the Wadden Sea, which isn’t the kind of sea you frolic in but is the world’s largest unbroken intertidal zone of sandflats, mud flats and gullies. In the Netherlands, exploring the Wadden Sea — on foot 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z But the movie’s opening third, shot in and around the mud flats of San Pedro Bay, in Southern California, is nothing less than sensational, mapping the terrain with unexpected close-ups and inventive angles. Bow and Cooper in ‘Children of Divorce’: Poor Little Silent Rich Kids 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z An ostrich egg, mysteriously abandoned on a mud flat, seems destined to petrify in the light of a distant sunset. Elephants in Dust 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z First there are the mud flats, covered daily by the tides. Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z As silt accumulates on them, the mud flats rise until they stand clear of the sea for long enough to become colonized by salt-loving plants. Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Tons of mud are trucked from the Boryeong mud flats to a beach area near the event. Like cheese, mud or monkeys? There’s a celebration for all those. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Their disdainful attitude toward an old Xhosa man they encounter on the mud flats — in the country’s racial profiling system, the Xhosa are black, a step below colored — is just apartheid paid downward. Review: After Apartheid, Who Are ‘Boesman and Lena’? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z When the tide is in, the island is accessible by boat, but it’s impossible during low tide when the shallow water exposes the mud flats. How a small Washington town banded together to find a lost dog 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z DWP crews in waders were also rescuing thousands of trout, carp, bass, bullfrogs, red-eared slider turtles, crayfish and other aquatic species stranded on the mud flats of rapidly evaporating catch basins. Fear of the 'Big Melt' turns to big relief along California's Eastern Sierra 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Estuaries like Chinook Wind provide a crucial environment where the fish can hide among the vegetation and tree branches and grow bigger as they feast on bugs and small arthropods in the mud flats. King County shows off salmon habitat where once stood a hotel 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The second car drove up onto a mud flat, and its two passengers eventually rescued. Flash flood in China kills five villagers who were herding sheep 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z They parked on the far edge of the outcrop, then continued on foot through a sloping scree field of glassy black stone until they reached a view of the mud flats to the east. Scientists warned of a Salton Sea disaster. No one listened 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Someone saw a Doberman trotting along 101 on the mud flats headed south. How a small Washington town banded together to find a lost dog 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Thousands of fish were left gasping on mud flats. Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z A modern grain silo, unused since the Russia’s invasion last year, was now redundant as the quayside where goods were loaded on to barges now overlooks empty mud flats. ‘Everything Will Die’: A Dam Blast Imperils Ukraine’s Vital Lifeline 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z The deal made the highly degraded expanse of marshes, mud flats and salt pans off limits to development. Judge orders halt to Ballona Wetlands restoration project 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z At low tide, the estuary is known for its dangerous mud flats made of silt created by glacier-pulverized rocks. “Mother Nature has no mercy:” Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “It was an odd sight to see this Doberman in the middle of a mud flat in a tidal bay,” Zimmerman said. How a small Washington town banded together to find a lost dog 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z But the submarine spent many years unused, docked in New London before eventually being abandoned on a mud flat near Old Saybrook. Wreckage of submarine found by divers in Long Island Sound 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z When refugees from the Italian mainland first settled on the mud flats and islets here in the fifth century, they built foundations with wooden piles in the sediment. Venice Is Saved! Woe Is Venice. 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Spend the day exploring intertidal mud flats and watching for all types of local and migratory shorebirds. These 5 Western WA campgrounds are perfect for spring trips 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Signs are posted warning people of hazardous waters and mud flats. “Mother Nature has no mercy:” Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s partly dredged, historically connecting some shallow tidal sloughs and mud flats that are rearing habitat for juvenile Chinook and other salmonid species. BNSF train derails on Swinomish Reservation as tribe readies court case against railway company 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z That effort, which used architecture and landscape design to dramatize the nation’s imperial ambitions, transformed a patchwork of gardens, mud flats and accumulated urban clutter into the open vista beloved today. Perspective | Stop building museums on the National Mall 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z The last of four breaches on Steamboat and Union sloughs should be done by mid-October, allowing the historical tidal channels, marsh and mud flats to breathe again. Puget Sound salmon habitat restored with tribes leading the way 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The indentations, pressed into the mud as people and animals walked across stretches of tidal mud flat, were baked in the sun and buried for millennia. Ancient footprints reveal 'Irish Sea Serengeti' 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z There have been other deaths on the mud flats. “Mother Nature has no mercy:” Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Among the many striking images is a pattern left in the mud flats around Poyang Lake, usually the largest freshwater body in the country, which has shrunk by more than two-thirds. China’s summer heat wave is breaking all records 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The aerial photograph shows a landmass separating two coastal estuarine habits, the mud flats of Egypt Bay and the Mount Desert Narrows. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z It’s so low that the riverbank is a mud flat, and we slip and slide our way to the water. Dipping into Nova Scotia’s abundant waters 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z It was a fish that lived about 375 million years ago, when our ancestors were scaly creatures vaguely resembling giant eels, walking across mud flats with four limbs complete with elbows, knees, wrists and ankles. These Fins Were Made for Walking … and Then Swimming 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, a man was rescued from the mud flats after one leg became stuck, and he sank to his waist while fishing in Turnagain Arm. “Mother Nature has no mercy:” Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z It contains a rendering of the Normandy coast, showing topography, sand dunes, hedges, houses, cemeteries, mud flats, villages, orchards, water depths, tidal charts and the “Easy Red” sector of Omaha Beach where Vaghi landed. Top-secret D-Day map of Omaha Beach goes to Library of Congress 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z They nurture seeds into saplings and then, in baskets or on boats, transport the young trees and dig in the mud flats to plant them. Facing Disastrous Floods, They Turned to Mangrove Trees for Protection 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z “The salt marshes were just melting away, becoming lifeless mud flats,” he said. Is This the Last Generation to Live on New York City’s Wild Fringes? 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The combination allowed the fish, which they named Tiktaalik, to walk on mud flats and the bottom of swamps. These Fins Were Made for Walking … and Then Swimming 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The agency also said an area where a prehistoric crocodile crossed a mud flat appeared to have been driven over multiple times by a backhoe, causing fracturing, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. US agency acknowledges damage to dinosaur tracks in Utah 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z After a mile, I met the receding tide, exposing, as it flowed toward the lagoon, mud flats that shone like aluminum foil in the sun. Taking the scenic route to Aveiro, on Portugal’s Atlantic coast 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In areas that had been barren-looking mud flats just a few years ago, cranes, gulls and herons abound in the flat rounded leaves of the mangrove trees. Facing Disastrous Floods, They Turned to Mangrove Trees for Protection 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z It was brought here as an ornamental plant, but by 1897 it had escaped into the wilds and was first reported growing in mud flats near Montreal. The Top 10 invaders in Washington: Wild pigs, monster fish, killer flowers and more 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z But Los Angeles just had beaches and cliffs and mud flats and marshes running from Point Dume in Malibu to below Long Beach. L.A.’s port could have been in Santa Monica. Here’s how San Pedro won out 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Juvenile salmon shelter and feed in eelgrass beds there, while migratory sandpipers frequent nearby mud flats. Cargo-ship fiasco underscores growing risk in Salish Sea 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Many tribal, state, and national parks are featured on the Olympic Loop of the Audubon Great Washington State Birding Trail’s River estuaries, forests, shorelines and mud flats. Discover Washington: Romantic getaway to Hood Canal | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z He looked out across the mud flats where his black buffaloes stood sweating. Climate change is turning the cradle of civilization into a grave These are the bright-green aquatic grasses that you see growing in circular clumps in mud flats and marshes. The Top 10 invaders in Washington: Wild pigs, monster fish, killer flowers and more 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z But it grew obsolete and, troubled by safety issues, was sold, converted into a floating fish cannery in Alaska, and then beached on a Kodiak mud flat. The Pete Carroll? Sir Floats-A-Lot? With zero submissions meeting criteria, Washington state extends naming new ferry 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z "In conjunction with the RNLI, additional temporary signage has been placed around the site in addition to the pre-existing permanent signage warning of rip currents and mud flats in the area." Callum Baker-Osborne: Family of man swept out to sea want beach shut 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Our first test plots covered 28 acres of mud flats in waters 2 to 3 feet deep. Restoring Seagrass Brings Barren Bays To Life 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z And hundreds became stuck in mud flats while trying to reach the sea at low tide. Lockdown? What Lockdown? Heat Wave Brings Britons Out in Droves 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Houses that once sat lakeside with private docks now stare out over mud flats pocked with pleasure boats heaving awkwardly on their sides. Michigan dam disaster an example of what could happen in many other communities 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Locals say that nearby trout streams have turned into mud flats since Nestlé’s arrival, and jobs did not materialize when it chose to build its bottling plant miles away. States look at banning, restricting bottling firms from tapping local groundwater 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Some residents fear being left with a stinking mud flat once the dam is gone, but in fact, dormant seeds quickly become trees, shrubs and grasses. It’s Fish vs. Dams, and the Dams Are Winning 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Whatever you call the animal, you can find them in abundance at Bodega Bay, where they build burrows in the tidal mud flats. Thousands of 'penis fish' appear on California beach 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Hundreds of beachgoers in the seaside town of Weston became trapped in mud flats as they tried to reach the sea during low tide. Lockdown? What Lockdown? Heat Wave Brings Britons Out in Droves 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z A team, commissioned by Historic England, made the finding on the mud flats of the River Roach in Essex. Dock where Darwin's ship 'was dismantled' revealed 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The Wadden Sea is considered a unique area of mud flats and shallows, and environmentalists say that putting a terminal there might cause pollution, while the big ships could damage the sea bottom. Pushed by Security Concerns and Trump, Germany Weighs a New Fuel 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Sandpipers fluttered over a mud flat; a kingfisher cut across the river. In California, orcas and salmon have become so scarce people have forgotten what once was. Will the Northwest be next? 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z In places including Louisiana and Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, nutria have burrowed through levees, destroyed crops and transformed vast swaths of vibrant wetlands into mud flats and open water . Swamp rats have invaded California. A Central Valley Democrat is declaring war 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z I had seen the world from 30,000 feet up, but this was completely different – we were in this ultra light aircraft, flying low over a vast mud flat. Zack Seckler's best photograph: wild Iceland from the air 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Tidal flats are mud flats, sand flats or wide rocky reef platforms that are important coastal ecosystems. Vital ecosystems in tidal flats lost to development and rising sea levels 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The pilot whales were found stranded on mud flats at Torryburn in Fife on Wednesday, a day after being spotted near the coastline. Three whales die in Firth of Forth 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But in this corner of northwest Hong Kong, tens of thousands of cormorants, herons, egrets, sandpipers and other birds, including endangered species like the black-faced spoonbill, gather each winter to feed on the mud flats. A Rural Patch of Hong Kong Where Rare Birds Sing and Developers Circle 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z A sweep of mud flats and tidal wetlands as seen from above.Credit: Fortresses of mud: how to protect the San Francisco Bay Area from rising seas 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Sledges are used to transport items over the mud flats of the German North Sea coast. Medals in the mud: Hundreds wade in at Germany's 'Wattoluempiade' 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z There is also sledge racing, with competitors using sledges that are specially designed for transporting objects over the mud flats of the German North Sea coast. In pictures: Germany's Mud Olympics 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z On a recent afternoon, Ross picked his way nimbly over the mud flats around the bluff where his cabin sits. Along Maine’s northeastern coast, seaweed stirs an international controversy 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z This summer, she plans to spend her mornings lobstering and her afternoons on the farm, wading through the shallow mud flats. Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Wetlands — which include swamps, marshes, lakes, mud flats and bogs — are biodiverse ecosystems that can improve the quality of water and mitigate damage from flooding and pollution. Where Do Birds Flock Together? Australians Are Mailing In Feathers to Help Find Out 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Redfish are good while drifting the east end mud flats on live shrimp. Texas Fishing Report 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z They feed on mud flats by sifting the sediment through their mouth parts and eating microorganisms. For Fiddler Crabs, ‘Size Does Matter’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Johns said Golden Nugget, Lake Charles’ newest riverboat, had to have a paddle wheel, a pilothouse and a crew and, “It’s sitting on a mud flat to make it legal.” Louisiana editorial roundup 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z At sunrise or midnight, workers might be out on the bay’s mud flats, taking advantage of low tide to dig for clams and oysters. A Washington county that went for Trump is shaken as immigrant neighbors start disappearing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Behind it, an old barge sat rusting in the water while seagulls stood on mud flats that smelled like a cocktail of saline and petroleum. Friends honor artist’s last wishes with water ballet in a Seattle kiddie pool 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The ten-day festival, currently underway on the country's west coast, features a huge mud tub, a marathon on the mud flats, parades and pop concerts. Row as New Zealand spends thousands on South Korean mud - BBC News 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z And we caught females wandering on the mud flat, which means that they’re usually looking for males, and then presented them with these robots and looked at the choices. For Fiddler Crabs, ‘Size Does Matter’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Currents worked and reworked these sediments, and you'd think that something so ephemeral would be wiped away long before the ancient mud flats and river beds turned to stone. Permanent Impermanence, or How the Fudge Did That Fossilize? 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z From Nielson’s living room, she would later see Diaz on the mud flats, clamming into the night. A Washington county that went for Trump is shaken as immigrant neighbors start disappearing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Snook are fair on shrimp in the channel and while wading mud flats. Texas Fishing Report 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z It opens and closes with epic battles in settings that range from narrow city alleys to treacherous mud flats. Review | ‘God of War’: 16th-century Chinese epic is sweeping, dynamic and unsurprising 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z She found herself drawn to one of the most ungainly areas of the Farm, a ragged set of former pastures by the mud flats with horrible drainage. A Reclusive Millionaire’s Vast New Zealand Sculpture Park 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z But the weather happened millions of years ago, when rain fell on the smooth surface of a mud flat, or the shifting sands of a dune. Permanent Impermanence, or How the Fudge Did That Fossilize? 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Manufacturing plants and industrial ponds outside Ningbo, China, extend into the mud flats of Hangzhou Bay. Satellite eye on Earth: February 2017 – in pictures 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Buried in the mud flats of Humboldt Bay are a feast of clams waiting to be pulled loose. California Today: Lawmakers With Little in Common, Except a Name 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z This spring, “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” will celebrate works from the past, including the Emeryville mud flats sculptures between Berkeley and Oakland and the radical actions of the Dutch group the Provos. 10 Places to See Public Art in 2017 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z On the mud flats, a string of 11 Roman-style arches created by Andy Goldsworthy from pink sandstone emerge from the water at low tide like the coils of a sea monster. A Reclusive Millionaire’s Vast New Zealand Sculpture Park 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Now it looks like a barren mud flat. At Blackwater refuge, rising sea levels drown habitat 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z On a nearby mud flat, local cockle pickers collect mollusks along the shore of South Wales, a nod to a previously bustling fish trade. For a Welsh City, the Tides Offer Renewal 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Jang and his men connect with members of the local resistance, gathering information on tides, mud flats and fortifications. ‘Operation Chromite’: Even Liam Neeson can’t save this Korean War movie 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z To reach the current water level you must climb down the rocks, cross a busy main road, make your way through a thicket of marshy plants and trek across a yawning mud flat. Dead Sea drying: A new low-point for Earth - BBC News 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z He then points out the hidden details of the harbor, including mud flats that have been sculpted into a lattice of channels. A Reclusive Millionaire’s Vast New Zealand Sculpture Park 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The Clean Water Act regulates the discharge of pollutants into “the waters of the United States,” which can include wetlands, mud flats and other swampy land that eventually reach other bodies of water. Supreme Court makes it easier for landowners to challenge environmental decisions 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Government-backed reclamation projects on tidal mud flats are the main reason for their decline. Despite the smog, bird-watching in Beijing takes flight 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The 10-foot crocodiles for which we scanned the riverbanks never materialized, but we did see great white egrets standing like sentries on the mud flats and ibises perching above the spidery mangrove roots. Escaping to Mexico’s Best-Kept-Secret Island 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The lake’s exposed mud flats in winter provide the birds with a spot to rest and socialize as they settle in for the night. Sandhill crane tours offered at Kentucky park 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Tucson artist Randy O'Brien creates ceramic "Lichen Urns" with three-dimensional surfaces that resemble moss, lichen, mineral formations and mud flats. Photos: See how artisanal urns are helping us personalize death in new -- and beautiful -- ways 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Dog paw prints run across cracked mud flats slick with red algae. Watershed patrolman keeps watch over 90 square miles 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Anchorage, for one, is surrounded by mud flats along its shoreline. Alaska swelters in unusually hot temperatures 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z “The mud flat was caused by a combination of overuse and rain at inopportune times,” National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst said in an e-mail Wednesday. The odor of spring at the Washington Monument this week? ‘Gross.’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z A previous plan for a barrage on the River Severn to create tidal power was scuttled after environmentalists protested it would prevent the daily exposure of mud flats vital for wading birds. UK to pioneer lagoon power plants 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z New land is rising here, forming mud flats that will soon be covered with waving spartina grass. Equity Firm Restores Louisiana Marshland to Earn Credits It Can Sell 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z Oyster reef structures line the edge of a mud flat on Mobile Bay. Post-BP Oil Spill Gulf Restoration Projects So Far Lack Basis in Science [Slide Show] 2014-05-12T11:00:00Z With the robots and drones packed up by noon, the BioBlitz volunteers continued to sample mud flats, botanical gardens and the grounds around the refuge. Drones, Robotic Rovers and Citizen Scientists Join Forces to Sample a Lake’s Biodiversity 2014-02-27T12:00:00Z And one of the black bears padded over the low-tide mud flats to Fire Island, an uninhabited spot 3 miles off the city's mainland, where it found the company of a local brown bear. Neck-cams capture Alaska's bears foraging through city 2013-05-14T01:48:38Z Low tide drains most of the water from the creek, exposing broad mud flats covered with an emerging waterlily known as spatterdock. Snakeheads get stunned, then tagged as biologists study fish’s effect on Potomac 2013-04-29T17:21:00Z The changes, the company has said, mean its plans are more fish-friendly and will reduce the amount of inter-tidal mud flats that will be lost to feeding birds. Inquiry begins into £30bn barrage 2013-01-10T08:25:11Z Oyster reef structures line the edge of a mud flat on Mobile Bay. Post-BP Oil Spill Gulf Restoration Projects So Far Lack Basis in Science [Slide Show] 2014-05-12T11:00:00Z Now, “when low tide reaches its peak, West Pond is just an extensive mud flat.” Gateway National Recreation Area Still Rebuilding After Hurricane Sandy 2012-12-11T03:33:16Z Testing late last year showed that five acres of shallow mud flats in the river here were highly contaminated with mercury, toxic chemical compounds called PCBs and dioxin, which is known to cause . Superfund Efforts to Clean Waterways Come With a Risk 2012-08-13T18:57:27Z An Ancient Civilization, Upended by Climate Change An arid mud flat in the Indus delta where geologists and archaeologists studied ancient climatic conditions. Green Blog: An Ancient Civilization, Upended by Climate Change 2012-05-29T15:59:24Z Along the coasts and in the larger river basins occur alluvial vegetation largely dominated by several kinds of mangrove, which is densest in mud flats washed by the tide. A Racial Study of the Fijians 2012-03-15T02:00:31.197Z Muscles were found in great abundance on the mud flats. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Between the waveless pallor of the water and the windless warm glow of the grass was drawn a narrow riband of copper red—the smooth mud flats left naked by the tide. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The high black escarpment, crowned by the massive black walls of Diarbekr, and fringed by a swampy tract of willow gardens, rose up sharply above the mud flats. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Most of the small closed basins, however, contain “playas,” or alkali mud flats, that are overflowed when the tributary streams are supplied with storm water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Generally long-legged, slender-billed birds of shores and mud flats, and sometimes fields. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Even when weathering has had full opportunity, as when sand bars, mud flats, and flood plains are exposed, vegetation takes root only slowly. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z "Hills were tumbled into the bay, and mud flats were made solid ground." Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Fat, ungainly penguins, sitting in white rows, like surpliced choirs, on the shallow shore, would scuttle further back along the mud flat, and taking up attitudes of doubtful interrogation would stare us out of countenance. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Sometimes we had these nets hung for half a mile along the mud flats, and curfew, whimbrel, geese, ducks, and various shore-haunting birds were taken in them. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The other boats were left by their owners to take their chances there on the mud flats where the water was only two or three feet deep, but Captain Jehu was not satisfied. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z As much of Lance's leisure time while at exercise as he could devote to this sort of reconnoitring he managed to concentrate on the mud flats, which at low tide were hardly a mile distant. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Back to the train, more hilly stretches of forest gradually merging into the dismal mangrove-bordered mud flats, and we slowed down and brought up at Gladstone. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z Low tides expose no mud flats for the edges of the marsh are nearly vertical banks and the water along the edges is more than one foot deep. Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima 2011-06-01T02:00:28.030Z The tracks were made by multiple species of sauropod, theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs as they walked across mud flats around 130 million years ago. Dinosaur Footprints Threatened by Natural Gas Project 2011-05-11T19:45:00.457Z There are mud flats on either side of the wide channel, where herons and sea-fowl greatly congregate. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z There is a mud flat in front, and hardly any one but ourselves knows the channel. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z It is an unlovely place, surrounded by mud flats, and a hotbed of malaria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Living for weeks in a sprawling shantytown on mud flats in Anacostia and in tents and hovels near the U.S. Frank Buckles, last U.S. vet?eran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington 2011-03-15T21:42:00Z These and the extensive mud flats and deltas at their mouths are often flooded, by which their fertility is increased, though at a heavy cost to the cultivator. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The Dutchman came out to avoid the mud flat. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Pictures taken by the Cassini-Huygens mission reveal what look like river channels, cobblestones, and lake beds or mud flats. Rafting for Rocks 2011-02-18T20:32:00Z The hunter's face fell, for he had allowed himself to hope a capture might be made in the mud flats. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The country here is very different from the mud flats of Flanders, as it is hilly and well wooded. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z It will be easier than walking along the mud flats.” Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Once, over by that mud flat, they said that their "beds" would cost lots of money, and one man said they might be glad there wasn't snakes here to cost more. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z There are some low, swampy islands, or mud flats, covered with mangrove thickets, in the lower Guayas river, but they are uninhabited and of no importance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Mig. r. tidal mud flats 9 Upper grayish-brown; under white; flanks, breast barred grayish-brown; upper base tail white barred black; brighter in far north; f., sim. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z Tony Blair is the only major political figure to span both eras, beginning his political life in the corridors of Davos and ending it in the mud flats of Basra. The Convert 2010-10-08T16:07:00Z Making their way along the mud flats, the girls came at last to the tiny stretch of sand where the sailboat had been beached the previous night. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Anyone still on the mud flats would be at risk of drowning. Parting the Waters: Computer Modeling Applies Physics to Red Sea Escape Route 2010-09-23T15:05:00Z I stomped on low-tide mud flats to elicit the squirt of buried clams. Passions and Detachment in Journalism 2010-08-31T14:39:00Z But the oil-caked mud flats provoked concern about the oil that may be unseen, buried all along the beach or sitting on the seabed offshore. In Gulf, Good News Is Taken With Grain of Salt 2010-08-05T03:01:00Z It is easy for the "enemy" to infiltrate such a vast area dotted with mangroves, channels and mud flats. High alert 2010-04-29T08:51:00Z Most mud flats up to high water mark are strewn with Amphibola. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them On the mud flats on one side of the pond, bee-birds were busy flycatching, perching on sticks near the ground and making short sallies over the flat. A-Birding on a Bronco The broad green pads offer the Virginia rail a secluded perch, where he may consider which quarter of the shining mud flats will prove the best feeding ground for the day. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Here were her bones, what was left, and for theirs the monkeys would be rolling them on the mud flats at low tide.... Where the Pavement Ends Since we first crawled out on the mud flats and grew feet and left our gills behind us, that's a long time. The Next Time We Die The spires of Bahia Blanca showed up white some 118 few miles inland; the nearer scene was one of tin roofs, of railway coaches and wagons, small muddy decks and mud flats. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday It's going up behind the mud flats as we speak and will, in a few minutes time, be up there over the dune behind me! German Moonlight You seem to be making straight for a gray mud flat; but as you approach you see a narrow lane of water opening in the mud and shingle. Titanic The tide would soon fall, leaving, as it retreated, a vast expanse of bare mud flats. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia The drive that had brought homo sapiens up from the mud flats was in his voice. The Next Time We Die Chapman says that they are gregarious at all seasons, are rarely found far from the seacoasts, and their favorite resorts are shallow bays or vast mud flats which are flooded at high water. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897 To the south lay mud flats, powdery dry but packed hard; and the west was a wilderness of sand. Shadow Mountain Four eggs laid on a mud flat near the water's edge; no nest. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Northward the deposit stretched away to dunes of shifting sand, and in the south long mud flats lay, covered with traceries of sun cracks as far as the eye could reach. When the West Was Young The loose material formed is blown away or washed away by rain and deposited elsewhere by streams in gravel bars, sand beds, and mud flats. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 The mud flats were dotted with hundreds of ruddy sheldrakes, their beautiful bodies glowing red and gold in the sunlight. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' First, there is the St. Charles river, whose shallows and mud flats foiled General Wolfe in his first assault upon Quebec. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders The feet are webbed, but more for the purpose of supporting them upon the mud flats than for use in swimming. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The Bennett party crossed the sink through the forest of rock-salt pinnacles and headed southward along 18 a strip of loose sand which lay between the mud flat and the mountains. When the West Was Young The pectoral fins are developed into regular legs, with which the fish hops or leaps along the mud flats . Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Flock after flock of geese rose into the air, and long lines of ducks skimmed close to the surface, settling away from shore or on the mud flats near the water's edge. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' The mouth of the river, always choked by mud flats, was opened by the United States in 1879. The New Nation These convicts were afterwards detailed to the work of filling up the mud flat before referred to as the site of the present "Commercial Square." Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 The marsh lay in the twilight, the curlews were passing overhead bound for a distant mud flat for the night. A Village of Vagabonds On the outside of each bend the bank was steep to the point of overhanging; on the inside there was invariably a mud flat made gay with water flowers. The Huntress In front of them lay the calm waters of Lake Sico—a shallow expanse, with mud flats at one side and a wilderness of trees, bushes, and wild canebrake at the other. The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht The king received him with much graciousness and ordered him to be carried honourably to Witham, and the wretched remnant in the mud flat received him as an angel of God. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England This darkness and light, racket and hush, mud flats and moss on the masts, all in one evening, has got me flummuxed. Gold Out of Celebes But there was nothing more for him to say and he watched the shiftless one as he left the oasis, glided over the mud flat and disappeared in the forest to the west. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods After locating a big flock of geese which were sunning themselves on the mud flats close to the grass, he led his companions far back from the water, making a wide détour. The Young Alaskans The same mud flats along the river bank remained until, in 982, after the first great fire, Cnut made a canal for his boats round Southwark. The Story of Rouen He walked to the door, stared out across the steaming gloomy mud flats toward the lighted windows of the Administration shack. The Native Soil "No, they'll bring up somewhere on a mud flat or marsh in the bay on this low water, but God help them if they can't fight their way back before flood tide." The Root of Evil They picked a path across the mud flats, recrossed the creek and entered the deep forest, where the two felt as if they had come back to their true home. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods They are shallow, reed-grown, and briny, and they are bordered by mud flats and quicksands between which there is little to choose. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania On the west side there is about three miles of a mud flat. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Off to the right across a mud flat one of the dredges apparently had done just that: a swarm of men and natives were hard at work dragging it up again. The Native Soil The heavy tropical jungle growth on the mud flats which extended on both sides of the river helped to increase the darkness. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure The bear threshed out of his den, clattered across the mud flats and entered the forest, whence came in a minute the sound of a shot. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods If he ran into the mud flats disaster might result. The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol She was taken from the city, through one of the arms of the Alabama, to the mud flats which reach to a point twenty miles down the bay, and are called Dog River Bar. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. He pointed across the black mud flats to a patch of sickly vegetation. The Native Soil When we had crossed about half the river we rested a while on a small mud flat, from which neither bank could be seen owing to the rain. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People It will beach itself presently, on a mud flat, and can be recovered towards evening. Civilization Tales of the Orient Until it was quite too dark to see any longer Merrick was out on the mud flats asking questions. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers The Americans forced their way across a 160-foot river, a stretch of mud flats and a 60-foot canal in the face of terrible fire. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights At first, there was nothing but dreary mud flats sliding past the cameras' watchful eyes. The Native Soil The tractors were designed for work in mud flats and the haulers had the narrow wheels used on rocky ground. The Sky Is Falling Its place, however, is taken by vast and ever-changing mud flats, the materials of which are swept to and fro by the moving waters. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography He recalled the wide, desolate mud flats running right up to the railway embankment for some miles. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers And about eighty miles north of here there is a mud flat where great numbers of mallards are assembling for migration northwards: and there are more bitterns there than there are higher up even. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years Through the windows they could see the gray mud flats careening wildly below them. The Native Soil What a river does not leave along its course it carries out to sea to help build the sand bars and mud flats there. The First Book of Farming The result is, that the tidal marshes, as well as the lower-lying mud flats, which have been occupied by the mat of vegetation, afford admirable earth for tillage. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography At high tide the mud flats were under water, and out of these the great mass of network rose both horizontally and perpendicular. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Elephants wandering in its mud flats when covered are annually killed in numbers: if it were connected with the Lake Moero the flood would run off. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Very well, then; you must remember as you go past Bellinzona—revolutionary little Bellinzona with its three castled crags—you look down upon a vast mud flat by the mouth of the Ticino. Science in Arcady Next morning the good people of Vicksburg woke to find their metropolis, not on the river channel, but practically an inland town overlooking a stagnant mud flat. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 He came down upon the hard sand of the beach and walked toward a tiny cove into which the mud flats extended and on which he knew the clams were plentiful and ripe. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod The principal political gatherings are held at the bay called Palauli, or "Black mud," from the dark mud flats which appear at low water. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before When the tide is down it comes off the mud flats. The Dweller on the Threshold Part of this mud flat is already solid land, but part is mere marsh or shifting quicksand. Science in Arcady Wading on the sand bars and mud flats till the water was almost over their backs, they stood like statues for several minutes. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The irrigation ditches were closed, thus providing the sloughs and ponds with fresh water, and lime was sprinkled on the mud flats and duck trails. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation A great deal of long, aquatic grass growing upon these mud flats, seemed to have attracted the black swans, for the number collected there was not estimated at less than five hundred. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Perhaps, really, a doctor and the wonderful air from the mud flats of Tankerton! The Dweller on the Threshold This upper end will then form a separate minor lake, and the Ticino will flow out of it across the intervening mud flat into the new and smaller Maggiore of our great-great-grandchildren. Science in Arcady A light railway thrown across the intervening mud flats connects it directly with Weston. Somerset I have before called it useless, from its being only navigable a mile or two within the entrance and that chiefly on the northern side, the rest being occupied by mud flats. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea Above Risdon Cove the mud flats commence, and will stop any vessel which draws more than ten or twelve feet; although there be, in some places higher up, from 5 to 8 fathoms. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 This harbour presents one very curious feature, namely, a sort of canal or gut in the mud flats that front the eastern side of Grant Island. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. The mud flats of the world are in large part the wear and tear of the eternal hills under the planing action of the eternal glaciers. Science in Arcady In consequence of the double tides with which Southampton is favoured, the chance of having a long stretch of ill looking and worse smelling mud flats in the foreground of the view is almost negligible. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The banks were fringed with mangroves, behind which stretched extensive mud flats, which from being encrusted with salt and glistening in the sun were mistaken at first for sheets of water. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea Not yet knowing exactly how much the enemy could see on the open mud flat, I determined to go along by the river bank, and by keeping among the trees I hoped to escape observation. Bullets & Billets Roebuck Bay, so named to commemorate the name of Dampier's ship, is about sixteen miles across: the southern shores are low, and extensive sandbanks and mud flats are bared at low-water. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. As a preliminary canter I shall trot out first the valley of the Po, the existing mud flat best known by personal experience to the feet and eyes of the tweed-clad English tourist. Science in Arcady “We don’t want to hang up on the mud flats for the rest of the night.” Tales of the Fish Patrol A growth of mangroves prevented our landing at high-water, and at low, soft mud flat fronted the shore for the distance of a mile and more. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea Night after night I crossed the dreary mud flat, passed the same old wretched farms, and went on with the same old trench routine. Bullets & Billets It was with much disappointment that we found the channel occupied, at low-water, by a mere rivulet, draining the extensive mud flats then left uncovered. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. And, indeed, the Lombard plain is but an insignificant mud flat compared with the vast alluvial plains of Asiatic and American rivers. Science in Arcady But at the time I did not know it was the Thames, I thought this great expanse of mud flats and water was the sea, which I had never yet seen nearly. Tono Bungay At high tide a boat can get in; but, as we have already said, there is a long mud flat at low-water. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea It is a large and rather dreary red-brick, three-storied building, situated in the lower part of the city, flanked on its west side by the mud flats leading down to the Charles River. A Book of Remarkable Criminals "We seem to take to sandbars and mud flats today to beat the band." The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or, the Secret of Cedar Island All was mud flats or water where are now the water front and some of the leading business streets of the city. History of California Boats went on shore with Lieutenant-Governor at 3, returned, at 4 got under way, at 6 ran on shore on a mud flat, at 11 got afloat at 6 A.M. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Who'd put a naval base on a bunch of mud flats? A Gentleman from Mississippi The incoming tide glistened oilily as it rolled over the mud flats. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories It consists chiefly of mud flats, covered with polygonum bushes, box timber, and a few salsolaceous plants, of inferior quality. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia He was probably taking a stroll upon the shores of that vast Mediterranean Sea that occupied all the interior of the continent when he crossed his mud flat. Time and Change At 5 ran on a mud flat: at 12 P.M. got afloat; at 1 came to anchor in Channel—at 5 A.M. got under way and proceeded down the River. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Gulf City is a big bunch of mud flats. A Gentleman from Mississippi Fortunately the tide was out and the water low; he left a trail across the mud flat like that of a frightened hippopotamus. The Iron Trail At times a vast expanse of dreary mud flats stretched as far as the eye could see. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan In that mud flat there were clams enough to feed him for all the rest of his life, if that were necessary. Lost in the Fog At 2 ran on shore on a mud flat in the Western Arm, landed passengers, bricks and baggage: at 11 got ship afloat and came to: at 4 A.M. towed down the River. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant The mill was finished and ready for business, and the millpond, instead of a mud flat, was a pretty sheet of water, fringed with palms and other beautiful trees. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida It is very foolish, and often suicidal, of men to correct women for going into rapture over mud flats. The Fortunate Youth At Robinson's Landing, a mere mud flat, a camp was established and preparations made for the voyage to the extreme limit of navigation. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons From this shore mud flats extended into the water. Lost in the Fog At 2 all hands getting ballast on board, took ground on mud flat: at 5 proceeded down River: at 8 came to abreast Storehouse Island in 18 fathoms. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant The tide was low and a great, boulder- strewn, mud flat stretched from side to side of the cove. Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador On that occasion, however, the only resultant harm was the conviction in the girl's heart that the presence of Paul turned mud flats into beds of asphodel. The Fortunate Youth Trails and burrows of worms have been left on the sea beaches and mud flats of all geological times from the Algonkian to the present. The Elements of Geology Before him there was an extensive mud flat, where there ought to be clams. Lost in the Fog Weighed and towed down the River, at 10 grounded on a mud flat. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant The nearer foreground was made up of mud flats, through which a sluggish, coffee-coloured river wound its way to the sea. Australia Felix She seems to be more down on that Imogene than a bow anchor on a mud flat. Thankful's Inheritance The lagoon is extremely shallow, and much of it is a mud flat too shoal for even small boats. The Elements of Geology Nothing could be more dreary than the mud flats that the traveller to the imperial city first sees. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening Much of this belt was covered with ancient forest ending in mud flats that appeared to have been thrown up recently, perhaps at the time of the tidal wave which bore us to Orofena. 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