The coastal waters (including lands therein and thereunder) and the adjacent shorelands (including the waters therein and thereunder), strongly influenced by each other and in proximity to the shorelines of several coastal states, and includes islands, transitional and intertidal areas, salt marshes, wetlands, and beaches. The zone extends, in Great Lakes waters, to the international boundary between the U.S. and Canada, in other areas, seaward to the outer limit of the U.S. territorial sea (CZMA §304.(1).
The term coastal zone means the coastal waters (including the lands therein and thereunder) and the adjacent shorelands (including the waters therein and thereunder), strongly influenced by each and in proximity to the shorelines of the several coastal states, and includes islands, transitional and inter-tidal areas, salt marshes, wetlands, and beaches. The zone extends, in Great Lakes waters, to the international boundary between the Unites States and Canada and in other areas seaward to the outer limit of the United States territorial sea. The zone extends inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control shorelands, the uses of which have a direct and significant impact on the coastal waters. Excluded from the coastal zone are lands the use of which is by law subject solely to the discretion of or which is held in trust by the Federal Government, its officers, or agents.
The region lying between the point on shore where the ocean¡¯s waves reach at high tide to the point off shore where the continental shelf drops off.
Warm, nutrient-rich, shallow part of the ocean that extends from the high-tide mark on land to the edge of a shelflike extension of continental land masses known as the continental shelf. Compare open sea.
A geographical entity including both terrestrial and submerged areas of the coast, defined legally or administratively for coastal zone management.
area landward and seaward of the shoreline which is considered to be affected by coastal processes
Lands and waters adjacent to the coast that exert an influence on the uses of the sea and its ecology, or whose uses and ecology are affected by the sea.
As officially defined in 301 CMR 20.00, the zone that extends landward to 100 feet beyond specified major roads, rail lines, or other visible rights-of-way; includes all of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Gosnold; and extends seaward to the edge of the state territorial sea.
The land-sea-air interface zone around continents and islands extending from the landward edge of a BARRIER BEACH or SHORELINE of coastal bay to the outer extent of the CONTINENTAL SHELF.
The area of Earth's surface from near the coast to the continental shelf break (~200 m isobath) where marine species (saltwater) dominate the ecology.
The area lying between the Washington border on the north to the California border on the south, bounded on the west by the extent of the state's jurisdiction, and in the east by the crest of the coastal mountain range., with the exception of (a) The Umpqua River basin, where the coastal zone shall extend to Scottsburg; (b) The Rogue River basin, where the coastal zone shall extend to Agness; (c) The Columbia River basin, where the coastal zone shall extend to the downstream end of Puget Island. (Formerly ORS 191.110)
The sea-land fringe area bordering the SHORELINE where to coastal waters and adjacent lands exert a measurable influence on each other.
A region a few kilometers wide on either side of the shoreline where local thermal circulations such as the sea breeze and land breeze occur.