Definition of Embayments. Meaning of Embayments. Synonyms of Embayments

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Definition of Embayments

Embayment
Embayment Em*bay"ment, n. A bay. [R.] The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. --Sir W. Scott.

Meaning of Embayments from wikipedia

- 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 Ōkāreka Embayment (also spelled Okareka or Ōkareka) is a volcanic feature in Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand. Its most significant recent volcanic...
- The Nipigon Embayment is an inactive continental rift zone in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, centered on Lake Nipigon. It represents an aulacogen of the...
- 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...
- south of the embayment. Volcanism within and near such collapse structure embayments ****ociated with the volcanic centre is predominately rhyolitic and Matahina...
- egress and ingress of the tide through inlets and the mouths of estuaries, embayments, and harbors. These currents may cause drowning deaths, but these tidal...
- plain features nearly continuous barriers interrupted by inlets, large embayments with drowned river valleys, and extensive wetlands and marshes. The Atlantic...
- finer sediment is being eroded away from the embayments. This process causes the horners and embayments to at least maintain their size, if not grow larger...