Definition & Meaning | English word MUDFLAT

Definitions of MUDFLAT

1. A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.

Examples of Using MUDFLAT in a Sentence

• Other facilities include Stream Walk, Succession Walk, Mangrove Boardwalk and three bird hides situated next to the fish pond, mudflat and riverside, leading visitors to venture habitats of wildlife such as fiddler crab, mudskipper and the rare black-faced spoonbill.
• These red beds consist of basal fluvial-lacustrine conglomerates, sandstones, and shales overlain by cyclic dolomite-siltstone layers, stromatolites and red mudstones, which represent a playa lake, sabkha, and mudflat environments; purple shales and siltstones interpreted as subaerial mudflat deposits; and an upper unit of cross-stratified sandstone beds, which are interpreted to be aeolian in origin.
• In the Netherlands, mudflat hikers can walk from the mainland to Terschelling, Ameland, Engelsmanplaat, Schiermonnikoog, Simonszand, and Rottumeroog.
• Dominating plants in these subtidal habitat is eelgrass, and mudflat portions in the habitat is supporting many invertebrate species.
• The area of bulrushes in the fringing vegetation has increased and threatens its ecological character by changing its floristics, reducing the amount of open water, and reducing the area of mudflat available to migratory shorebirds.
• Estero de Limantour SMR and Drakes Estero SMCA protect complex estuarine habitats, including eelgrass beds and mudflat ecosystems, and reduce disturbances to major mainland seabird colonies and elephant seal rookeries.
• Those running aground in the Hunter included, Pelaw Main in 1918, Malachite in 1926, Minmi in 1930, Pelaw Main in 1931, 1946, 1948, and 1953, Pelton Bank in 1936 and 1939, Hetton Bank in 1948, during a fog, and in 1950, and, in 1952, Ayrfield, which went aground on a mudflat near Stockton after loading at the Dyke.

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