embayment

Now it was a protected embayment, high above the river.

Much of the region geologically lies within the Mississippi embayment.

He had since learned there was a longer, easier, if less spectacular ascent to the high embayment.

The severe winter storms of 1861/62 filled the embayment with sediment.

This area is now part of the Hazel Creek embayment.

Spectator craft are invited to anchor in the embayment north of Pier 26.

Those not returning by water hurried back up the trail, hoping to reach the high embayment before the young couple did.

These lowlands are the northernmost extent of the Mississippi embayment.

The shore of the embayment lay inland at the present-day fall line in the region.

The river split out again into several channels across a ism that formed an embayment.

There goes most of the Mississippi embayment.

It created an embayment so the hydrostatic force wouldn't be so bad.

Deep in the embayment a smaller piece of cliff gave way as well, no doubt triggered by shock waves.

A modern analogue to describe delta switching would be the Mississippi embayment.

The first embayment has now been filled.

The most striking feature of the embayment is the broad valley which the Mississippi has eroded across it.

Early European explorers used the embayment as an anchorage for large ships until the 1860s.

The inlet is a shallow 18 km tidal embayment with a single channel to the sea.

The foothills lie to the north and west and the embayment is to the south and east.

This phenomenon is attributed to the deposition of fluvial sediment in the embayment.

It also forms the effective southeastern boundary to the Dezful embayment.

Roebuck Bay is a 550 km (210 mi) tropical, marine embayment.

The name has been applied to the large embayment lying close southwest in keeping with Wilkes' original naming.

They are part of an area called the Amundsen Sea Embayment.

They camped within the low embayment.