To: Brumar89 who wrote (59841 ) 10/29/2014 8:57:57 AM From: Eric Read Replies (1) | Respond to Yup,The United States Geological Survey (USGS) defines Puget Sound as a bay with numerous channels and branches; more specifically, it is a fjord system of flooded glacial valleys. Puget Sound is part of a larger physiographic structure termed the Puget Trough, which is a physiographic section of the larger Pacific Border province , which in turn is part of the larger Pacific Mountain System . [5] Puget Sound is a large salt water estuary , or system of many estuaries, fed by highly seasonal freshwater from the Olympic and Cascade mountain watersheds. [6] Puget Sound is connected to the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the north at Admiralty Inlet , between Point Partridge on Whidbey Island and Point Wilson on the Olympic Peninsula . A second connection is Deception Pass , between West Point on Whidbey Island and Rosario Head on Fidalgo Island . [7] [10] Puget Sound's sills, a kind of submarine terminal moraine , separate the basins from one another, and Puget Sound from the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Three sills are particularly significant — the one at Admiralty Inlet which checks the flow of water between the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound, the one at the entrance to Hood Canal (about 175 ft or 53 m below the surface), and the one at the Tacoma Narrows (about 145 ft or 44 m). Other sills that present less of a barrier include the ones at Blake Island , Agate Pass , Rich Passage , and Hammersley Inlet . [11] en.wikipedia.org Only someone with your physics and flight and sailing background could have managed this, I'm sure.
