Chesapeake
- Crabs
- The largest estuary in North America
- A partially mixed, temperate-zone estuary
- Spatial and temporal variation of many physical, chemical, and biological parameters
- A drowned river valley of the Susquehanna
- 200 miles in length (Havre de Grace, MD, to it mouth between Capes Henry and Charles, VA)
- This estuary includes over 150 tributary rivers and streams
- 64,00 square miles drainage basin
- Basin in six states (New York, Pensylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia)
- 5,000 miles of shoreline
- 135,000,000 gallons below the fall line
- 21 feet average depth (a relatively shallow estuary)
