Definition of Embayment. Meaning of Embayment. Synonyms of Embayment

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Definition of Embayment

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 Embayment 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 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 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 Nipigon Embayment is an inactive continental rift zone in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, centered on Lake Nipigon. It represents an aulacogen of the...
- Appalachian Mountains. Its northernmost extent is along the Mississippi embayment (Mississippi Alluvial Valley) as far north as the southern tip of Illinois...
- The Puhipuhi Embayment (also Puhipuhi Basin) is a volcanic feature in Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand ****ociated with the collapse of the Ōkataina...
- The Ōkāreka Embayment (also spelled Okareka or Ōkareka) is a volcanic feature in Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand. It most significant recent volcanic...
- 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...