Talk:Ria

Ria
2007-04-19 - I recommend adding a disambiguation link at the top of the page to point to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application

I was looking up the acronym RIA and couldn't find it in Wikipedia but by going back to google I found the Wikipedia link above.

Thanks

2009-01-23 - About rias in Galicia, maybe would be interesting point that Ria of Eo is a half Galician ria, the other half is owned by Asturias, and there has been a lot of controverse even with the name. So actually it's not an example of a galician ria as the other ones —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.7.232.239 (talk) 09:12, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Indeed the estuaries may be created by wave erosion, or simple lack of creation  (eg if two volcancoes are formed close together, the gap in between may appear as a Ria. Or where there are fold mountains. Lake Macquarie, NSW, AUstralia, appears like a ria, or having ria, due to tectonic folds creating ridges, with erosion deepening the valley between them )  It is best to say the name applies where the  estuary has the dendritic form, *as if* a river origin.

121.217.227.53 (talk) 07:47, 11 March 2014 (UTC) Someone decided to replace "Galician language" with "Spanish language" in the part explaining the origin of the word. The word ria most definitely comes from Galician language, as the word appears in a time when Galician was the only language of the region (language that, in fact, pre-dates Spanish); it was later adopted by Spanish (and other languages of course). Swamp Greetings (talk) 16:00, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

2011-09-26 The origin of "Ria" is in the Galaico-Portuguese language, which is the common root of the current Galician and Portuguese languages. The word "Ria" is widely used in Portugal, not only in Galicia. Examples are Ria de Aveiro, Ria Formosa, Ria de Alvor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruigcosta (talk • contribs) 12:35, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

I don’t fancy making an edit, but that bit about European geomorpholigists seems wrong (unless you’re not counting the UK as European). In the 1980s, I was certainly taught that a ria was a *only* a flooded river valley. Never a fjord. TchmilFan (talk) 22:55, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation page for RIA
We need a disambiguation page. In addition to the singer Ria (singer) in the main article and the Rich Internet Application (RIA) page requested in the discussion so far, there's also Radioimmunoassay (RIA) and possibly more. Rather than having a separate "did you mean...?" link for each item at the top of the Ria (New Zealand) page, a proper disambiguation page is needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0dimensional (talk • contribs) 17:50, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

River Severn
The estuary of this isn't a ria. For a start, it's not an insignificant river but the longest one in Britain. Several other major rivers join the tidal portion too, e.g. the Usk, Wye and Avon. Lots of sediment there. It has only flowed towards the Bristol Channel since the end of the ice age, before that it went north into the Irish Sea, so not much time to form a valley to drown. The estuary isn't dendritic but funnel-shaped, then around Gloucester it starts meandering while still tidal- rias don't do that. It's the large tides near the mouth that cause the large estuary in this case, not the drowning of a valley. Walshie79 (talk) 01:17, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Unsourced examples and contradictory info
The examples of rias, all unsourced, is concerning, since some (such as the Severn estuary - see above - and Chichester Harbour) are disputed. There is also some (again, unsourced) contradiction in the explanation. Can some geographer sort this out?  Tony Holkham   (Talk)  15:29, 10 January 2018 (UTC)