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fog bank n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a distinct mass of fog, esp at sea Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Fifteen years later, a flotilla of US Navy destroyers was steaming down the rocky coastline of the Santa Barbara channel when it encountered a heavy fog bank. Several are so eerily scenic that they suggest Hollywood FX--especially Fullmoon@Burns Bay, in which a distant waterfall spills into a storybook cove, and Fullmoon@Pacific, in which rocky outcroppings emerge from what appears to be a fog bank but is in fact the moving current, like the surface of a distant planet imagined by Roger Dean. You might hear, for example, a fighter pilot talk about trying to locate this speck in a vast ocean, with a fog bank closing in. |
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