embayment

How To Use embayment In A Sentence

• The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide.
• The northern part of the shield is truncated by a 10 km wide embayment, open to the north and filled by postshield volcanism.
• Both are large, shallow embayments that are contaminated by direct discharges from mercury-cell chlor-alkali plants and dominated by rapid tidal flushing.
• If the pinnae or segments are lobed, the embayments are known as sinuses.
• Hills Beach to the north and Fletcher Neck to the south, comprise the pair of supratidal tombolos that protect the embayment, or ‘The Pool’, from the open ocean.
• In turn, the embayment of the squamosal or cheek region was associated with the development of a tympanum or ear drum.
• Longshore drift transported sediment from this eroding rocky coastline to these embayments following the culmination of the post-glacial marine transgression some 7 ka ago.
• Changes in margin orientation at the current location of the southern Antarctic Peninsula form an embayment or re-entrant.
• Because less dense water tends to be shallower, this will tend to move sinking plankton and sediment toward the crest of banks, toward the coast, and up embayments, even in the absence of any mean currents.
• The large tidal prism saves the estuarine complex, and particularly the embayment, from destructive domestic enrichment and allows the re-distribution of land derived sediments during river and stream floods.