Shoal in rivers, streams, and lakes. A shoal–sandbar may seasonally separate a smaller body of water from the sea, such as: The term "bar" can apply to landform features spanning a considerable range in size, from a length of a few metres in a small stream to marine depositions stretching for hundreds of kilometers along a coastline, often called barrier islands. They are typically composed of sand, although they could be of any granular matter that the moving water has access to and is capable of shifting around (for example, soil, silt, gravel, cobble, shingle, or even boulders). The grain size
Gravel Run (Black Creek) by acid mine drainage in the early 1900s. The acid mine drainage came from mines in and near the city of Hazleton. Gravel Run is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Hazleton. It drains a portion of the northwestern part of the city of Hazleton. It drains the older part of the city as well as the Green Ridge Territory. Gravel Run is one of eleven officially named streams in the watershed of Nescopeck Creek that has not been assessed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Gravel Run was entered into the Geographic Names Information System