How To Use Embayment In A Sentence
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The Dezful embayment was a sedimentary basin with pronounced subsidence where thick late Eocene-Recent deposits were formed.
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Along the California coast, several embayments exist where either Batillaria or Cerithidea dominates, but few sites exist where both species are in high abundance.
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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.
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The supraoccipital is a weakly rhomboidal element, which meets the parietal in its deep posterior embayment as described above.
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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
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The leopard shark forages in the kelp forest, in the surf zone, and in shallow embayments and estuaries.
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The slough was a large shallow embayment and a quiet water estuary with little tidal influence.
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
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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.
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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.
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The great majority of earthquakes in this region occur beneath the northern portion of the embayment.
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Spatial-temporal variability in surface layer deepening and lateral advection in an embayment of Lake Victoria, East Africa
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Presque Isle Bay is a small embayment (505 ha, Pyron et al. 2001) on the eastern shore of Lake Erie.
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Temperate carbonates were deposited in the Carboneras Basin, a small embayment of the Mediterranean Sea, during the early Pliocene.
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Although often described as a benthic or epiphytic species, A. carterae also thrives in the plankton of coastal embayments and estuaries, possibly connected with a diurnal vertical migration.
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During the Late Silurian and Early Devonian, the Royal Creek area lay at the margin of a deep-water embayment.
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The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide.
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The Liard Formation is a variably thick succession of calcareous sandstone and arenaceous limestone that was deposited within and adjacent to the Peace River embayment in the Middle Triassic.
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The landward extent of the embayment fill abuts the western side of the Woakwine Range, a Pleistocene barrier.
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Tomato clownfish are known to inhabit lagoon reefs, particularly with embayments.
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Such shelter may be found in estuaries, in embayments, and on sections of open coast which are protected by wide intertidal flats and barrier complexes.
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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.
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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.
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Changes in margin orientation at the current location of the southern Antarctic Peninsula form an embayment or re-entrant.
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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.
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In turn, the embayment of the squamosal or cheek region was associated with the development of a tympanum or ear drum.
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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.
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If the pinnae or segments are lobed, the embayments are known as sinuses.
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Both are large, shallow embayments that are contaminated by direct discharges from mercury-cell chlor-alkali plants and dominated by rapid tidal flushing.
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The northern part of the shield is truncated by a 10 km wide embayment, open to the north and filled by postshield volcanism.
