embayment's Usage Examples:

The extension of a trough or basin penetrating the land or an elevation is termed an " embayment " when wide, and a " gully " when long and narrow; and the deepest part of a depression is termed a " deep.

The southern and narrow part of the table-land, called the Edwards Plateau, is more dissected thanthe rest, and falls off to the south in a frayed-out fault scarp, as already mentioned, overlooking the coastal plain of the Rio Grande embayment.

The special features of the Gulf Plain are the peninsular extension of the plain in Florida, the belted arrangement of relief and soils in Alabama and in Texas, and the Mississippi embayment or inland extension of the plain half-way up the course of the Mississippi river, with the Mississippi flood plain there included.

The extension of a basin or trough stretching towards the continent is termed an embayment when relatively wide and a gully when narrow.

Tides and currents The region consists of a deeper channel in the west, with shallower embayments in the east.

Hence the coast as a whole is irregular, with numerous embayments, peninsulas and islands; and in Maine this irregularity reaches a disadvantageous climax.

There is evidence that birds moved away from the oiled embayments as a result.

Ash, oaks, black and sweet gums, chestnuts, hickories, hard maple, beech, walnut and short-leaf pine are noteworthy among the trees of the Carolinian area; the tupelo and bald cypress of the embayment region, and long-leaf and loblolly pines, pecans and live oaks of the uplands, among those characteristic of the Austro-riparian.

Road improvements, or construction of new roads, often involve ' straightening ` the shoreline or building causeways across small embayments.

Most of the recent movements appear to have been upward, for the coast presents few embayments such as would result from the depression and partial submergence of a disse~ted mountain range; but three important exceptions must be made to this rule.

However, during the Ipswichian interglacial a rising sea filled The Wash, the large embayment bordering northwest Norfolk.

"- Mississippi lies for the most part in the Mississippi embayment of the Gulf Coastal Plain.

Synonyms:

bay, body of water, bight, Guantanamo Bay, sea, water,

Antonyms:

uncolored, territorial waters, international waters, high sea, unfasten,