Sea meets land {coast, ocean}.
Sea can make small coastline indentations {bay}|.
At shore, low valleys {estuary}| can fill with rising water.
narrow bay {inlet}|, or narrow area between two islands.
At shore, steep glacier valleys {fjord} can fill with rising waters.
Sea can make big coastline indentations {gulf}|.
Oblique currents and waves create beaches, sandbars, and spits on shore, and make offshore sandbars if beach has shallow slope. Quiet water {lagoon}| can be between a sandbar and shore.
Sea has a region {littoral}| between high and low tides.
Water {sound, shore} can be between island and shore.
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