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Embayment

Embayment meaning

A bay. (the water) | The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water) | A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.

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Example sentences (3)

These surveys also identified an embayment feature that may represent a shallow, fault bounded paleo-lakebed within the unconsolidated sediments that overlie the older volcanic and sedimentary “basement” rocks.

Formed from thick layers of the river's silt deposits, the Mississippi Embayment is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the country, which resulted in the river's storied steamboat era.

Some Lake Ontario areas of concern include the Oswego River and Rochester Embayment on the American side, and Hamilton Harbour and Toronto on the Canadian Side.