In United Kingdom usage, the term creek refers exclusively to a tidal water channel. In this usage, a creek would normally dry to a muddy channel with little or no flow at low tide, but often with significant depth of water at high tide.
Tidalcreeks are the most common type of coastal waterway in Australia, and are most abundant in north-western Australia and the Gulf of Carpentaria, where they occur along mostly macrotidal, low-gradient coastal plains.
The geomorphology of tidalcreeks is usually comprised of a straight, sinuous, or dendritic tidal channel(s) that taper (in a negative-exponential fashion upstream) and shoal to landward (Wolanski et al., 1992).
Tidalcreeks are highly variable in size (Heap et al., 2001) and, due to strong tidal currents generated by large tidal ranges, are usually highly turbid.
Tidalcreeks, one particular type of estuary, are integral components of the coastal zone of the Bahamas.
More than 40 acres of tidalcreek (wetland) habitat were blocked from tidal influence, resulting in an isolated wetland with limited marine input (only seepage through the limestone rocks under the road, and on extremely high tides).
Fish movement patterns One of the most important purposes of tidalcreek restoration is to improve quality of, and access to, important habitat that may serve as “nurseries” for ecologically and economically important fish species.
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