- entrance. A
fjord is an
elongated bay
formed by
glacial action. The term
embayment is also used for
related features, such as
extinct bays or freshwater...
- The
Mississippi embayment is a
physiographic feature in the south-central
United States, part of the
Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It is
essentially a northward...
- The Ross
Embayment is a
large region of Antarctica,
comprising the Ross Ice
Shelf and the Ross Sea, that lies
between East and West Antarctica. The continent...
- the size of the
state of Texas, this area is
known as the
Amundsen Sea
Embayment (ASE); it
forms one of the
three major ice-drainage
basins of the West...
- The
Embayment Mega
Group is
found from the Gulf of
Mexico north to
southern Illinois. The
Mounds Gravel is
found in
southern Illinois. It is composed...
- The
Nipigon Embayment is an
inactive continental rift zone in
Northwestern Ontario, Canada,
centered on Lake Nipigon. It
represents an
aulacogen of the...
- The Ōkāreka
Embayment (also
spelled Okareka or Ōkareka) is a
volcanic feature in
Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand. Its most
significant recent volcanic...
-
Appalachian Mountains. Its
northernmost extent is
along the
Mississippi embayment (Mississippi
Alluvial Valley) as far
north as the
southern tip of Illinois...
- The
Salisbury Embayment was an arm of the
Atlantic Ocean which covered what is now Delaware,
southern and
eastern Maryland, the
Virginia Peninsula and...
- 165°00′E / 78.750°S 165.000°E / -78.750; 165.000. A
large ice-filled
embayment between Shults Peninsula and
Minna Bluff,
along the
northwest side of...
