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Petaluma River, the Glossary

The Petaluma River is a river in the California counties of Sonoma and Marin that becomes a tidal slough for most of its length.^[1]

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Estuaries of California
Tributaries of San Pablo Bay
Wetlands of the San Francisco Bay Area

Adobe Creek (Sonoma County, California)

Adobe Creek is a southward-flowing stream in Sonoma County, California, United States, which flows past the historic Rancho Petaluma Adobe on the creek's course to its confluence with the Petaluma River. Petaluma River and Adobe Creek (Sonoma County, California) are rivers of Northern California.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Black Point Railroad Bridge

The Black Point Railroad Bridge is a truss swing bridge spanning the Petaluma River, located in Black Point-Green Point, California.

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Blennosperma bakeri

Blennosperma bakeri is a rare species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names Baker's stickyseed and Sonoma sunshine.

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Box girder bridge

A box girder bridge, or box section bridge, is a bridge in which the main beams comprise girders in the shape of a hollow box.

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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California State Route 37

State Route 37 (SR 37) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs along the northern shore of San Pablo Bay.

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Chinook salmon

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon.

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Coast Miwok

The Coast Miwok are an Indigenous people of California that were the second-largest tribe of the Miwok people.

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Cotati, California

Cotati (Miwok: Kota’ti) is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located approximately north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma.

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Dredging

Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Hatchery

A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish, poultry or even turtles.

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Haystack Landing Bridge

The Haystack Landing Bridge is a railroad bridge owned by Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) at Haystack Landing in Petaluma, California.

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Hydrocarbon

In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.

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Irvine, California

Irvine is the largest city and a master-planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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Lakeville, California

Lakeville is an unincorporated community in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Lasthenia burkei

Lasthenia burkei is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Burke's goldfields and Burke's baeria.

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Lichau Creek

Lichau Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. Petaluma River and Lichau Creek are rivers of Northern California.

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Limnanthes vinculans

Limnanthes vinculans, the Sebastopol meadowfoam, is an endangered species of meadowfoam found only in the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, United States and an area slightly to the south in the Americano Creek and Washoe Creek watersheds.

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List of rivers of California

This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of California, grouped by region.

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List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area

These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into.

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Lynch Creek

Lynch Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. Petaluma River and Lynch Creek are rivers of Northern California.

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Marin County, California

Marin County (Condado de Marín) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Marsh

In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.

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Mission San Francisco de Asís

The Mission San Francisco de Asís (Misión San Francisco de Asís), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California.

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Miwok

The Miwok (also spelled Miwuk, Mi-Wuk, or Me-Wuk) are members of four linguistically related Native American groups Indigenous to what is now Northern California, who traditionally spoke one of the Miwok languages in the Utian family.

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Navigability

A body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and calm enough for a water vessel (e.g. boats) to pass safely.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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North American river otter

The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter and river otter, is a semiaquatic mammal that lives only on the North American continent throughout most of Canada, along the coasts of the United States and its inland waterways.

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Novato, California

Novato (Spanish for "Novatus") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, situated in the North Bay region of the Bay Area.

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Overgrazing

Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.

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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.

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Petaluma, California

Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Phosphate

In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.

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Precast concrete

Precast concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and maneuvered into place; examples include precast beams, and wall panels, floors, roofs, and piles.

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Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Ridgway's rail

Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus) is a species of bird found principally along the Pacific coast of North America from the San Francisco Bay Area to southern Baja California, as well as in some regions of the Gulf of California.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Salt marsh harvest mouse

The salt-marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris), also known as the red-bellied harvest mouse, is an endangered rodent endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area salt marshes in California.

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San Antonio Creek (Marin County, California)

San Antonio Creek is a northward then eastward-flowing stream in the California, United States, counties of Marin and Sonoma that forms part of the boundary between those counties. Petaluma River and San Antonio Creek (Marin County, California) are rivers of Northern California.

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San Pablo Bay

San Pablo Bay is a tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of the San Francisco Bay in the East Bay and North Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California. Petaluma River and San Pablo Bay are estuaries of California and Tributaries of San Pablo Bay.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Sonoma Mountain

Sonoma Mountain is a prominent landform within the Sonoma Mountains of southern Sonoma County, California.

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Steelhead

Steelhead, or occasionally steelhead trout, is the anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or Columbia River redband trout (O. m. gairdneri, also called redband steelhead).

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Thomas Guide

Thomas Guide is a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, including Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.

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Tidal marsh

A tidal marsh (also known as a type of "tidal wetland") is a marsh found along rivers, coasts and estuaries which floods and drains by the tidal movement of the adjacent estuary, sea or ocean.

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Trifolium amoenum

Trifolium amoenum, known by the common names showy Indian clover and two-fork clover, is endemic to California, and is an endangered annual herb that subsists in grassland areas of the San Francisco Bay Area and the northern California Coast Ranges.

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Turning basin

A turning basin, winding basin or swinging basin is a wider body of water, either located at the end of a ship canal or in a port to allow cargo ships to turn and reverse their direction of travel, or to enable long narrow barges in a canal to turn a sharp corner.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluma_River

Also known as Petaluma Creek.

, Steelhead, Thomas Guide, Tidal marsh, Trifolium amoenum, Turning basin, U.S. Route 101 in California, United States, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Urban runoff, Washington Creek, Water pollution, Water quality, Wetland.

Petaluma River, the Glossary

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See also

Estuaries of California

Tributaries of San Pablo Bay

Wetlands of the San Francisco Bay Area

References