embayment

How To Use embayment In A Sentence

• The Dezful embayment was a sedimentary basin with pronounced subsidence where thick late Eocene-Recent deposits were formed.
• Along the California coast, several embayments exist where either Batillaria or Cerithidea dominates, but few sites exist where both species are in high abundance.
• The lack of flexibility and diversity inherent in the city's one-industry economy directly impacted the economy of the city and indirectly the ecology of local embayments.
• The supraoccipital is a weakly rhomboidal element, which meets the parietal in its deep posterior embayment as described above.
• The bulk of underlying rocks (slates and greywacke to greenschist facies) are marine Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous sediments of the Hodgekinson Basin and Broken River Embayment. Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia
• The leopard shark forages in the kelp forest, in the surf zone, and in shallow embayments and estuaries.
• The slough was a large shallow embayment and a quiet water estuary with little tidal influence. Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
• The very short period of time between the shield stage truncated by the Garajonay embayment and the beginning of its filling by the Vallehermoso stratovolcano suggests a volcano-tectonic origin.
• H. ampullatus is most commonly found in waters at least 1000m deep and often forages at or near the north atlantic ice shelf in sheltered embayments during the spring and summer.
• The great majority of earthquakes in this region occur beneath the northern portion of the embayment.