Shoal - Wikipedia In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation
What is a Shoal? - WorldAtlas What is a Shoal? Ocean waves can create shoals of sand known as sandbars The term shoal is commonly used in earth sciences, oceanography and geomorphology to refer to a natural submerged bar, bank, or ridge which is made up of consolidated material such as sand
Shoal - definition of shoal by The Free Dictionary 1 a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow 2 a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, esp one visible at low tide 3 (of water) shallow
Shoal | Marine Habitat, Sandbanks Estuaries | Britannica Shoal, accumulation of sediment in a river channel or on a continental shelf that is potentially dangerous to ships On the continental shelf it is conventionally taken to be less than 10 m (33 feet) below water level at low tide
shoal - definition and meaning - Wordnik noun A great multitude; a crowd; a throng; of fish, a school: as, a shoal of herring; shoals of people To assemble in a multitude; crowd; throng; school, as fish To become shallow, or more shallow Nautical, to cause to become shallow, or more shallow; proceed from a greater into a lesser depth of: as, a vessel in sailing shoals her water