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embayment [em′bā·mənt] (geography) Indentation in a shoreline forming a bay. (geology) Act or process of forming a bay. A reentrant of sedimentary rock into a crystalline massif. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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North of the SRP are Cretaceous granites of the Idaho Batholith, along with assorted Eocene volcanic rocks, older sedimentary rocks, and the Miocene (14-17 Ma) Columbia River Basalts of the Weiser embayment (Figs. A preliminary investigation was conducted in 1998 with seven fish species collected from the Cootes Paradise region, an embayment of Hamilton Harbour in the western part of Lake Ontario, Canada, that receives discharges of treated domestic sewage. Kambalda style massive and heavily disseminated sulphides occur in footwall embayments. |
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