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Netarts Bay is a bay on the northern Oregon Coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, located about southwest of Tillamook. The bay is approximately 5 by 1.5 miles (8.0 by 2.4 km) and totals in area, making it Oregon's seventh largest bay. Of that, are permanently submerged—the balance of is intertidal land.〔 It experiences a tidal range of . The bay is part of a watershed of 〔 that is fed by at least 16 small creeks. From north to south, there is Fall Creek, Hodgdon Creek, O'Hara Creek, Rice Creek, two unnamed creeks, Yager Creek, three unnamed creeks, Whiskey Creek, an unnamed creek, Austin Creek, two unnamed creeks, and Jackson Creek.〔(ACME Mapper topomaps )〕 Layers of coarse sands and peat are below the soil along the coastline at Netarts Bay. Geologists have used this as evidence of significant earthquakes that have occurred in northwestern Oregon for more than 3,000 years. Tsunamis that resulted from the earthquakes deposited sediments from the ocean onto the coast. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Netarts Bay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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