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Estuaries show dynamic patterns of channels and bars, which are also valuable habitats, while channels provide access to harbours. In contrast with bars in rivers, we still lack explanations, theory and classifications for bars in estuaries. Theories for river bars show bar properties to be strongly dependent on channel width-to-depth ratio. For estuaries, only two physics-based theories are available...