The pacific coast of Costa Rica has a large number of embayments that provide shelter from wind and waves, which favor mangrove development. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The highest deposition occurs in coral reef habitats (9 Tmol yr-1), followed by banks and embayments (4 Tmol yr-1), carbonate shelves (6 Tmol yr-1) and non-carbonate shelves (4 Tmol year-1). ❋ Unknown (2009)
It includes the great polar embayments of the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea, and the deep circumpolar belt of ocean between 50 and 60°S and the southern fringes of the warmer oceans to the north. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The geomorphology of the region is shaped by the combined processes of glaciation, glacial retreat and the continuing emergence of new land that has left a mosaic of shallow, sheltered embayments and islands next to deep, open waters resulting in a wide range of habitats. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the south-west, broken hill country, encircling lowland embayments, forms the transition to the deeply incised plateau that reaches its greatest elevations of over 2,000 m above sea level in the Kabale district. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Where there are barrier beaches fronting embayments, the sand absorbs the energy much as it does at the base of cliffs. ❋ Unknown (2008)
With flooding, most of the coastal embayments filled with sediment. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Shark Bay is a complete marine ecosystem containing many important features, including the Wooramel seagrass bank, the Faure sill and ecosystems dominated by benthic microbial communities which flourish in the hypersaline embayments, and living fossil stromatolites. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Shark Bay along the coastline is an inverse estuary: along the arid coastline, the high evaporation rate from shallow embayments without significant freshwater inflows and with restricted tidal exchange creates an environment with a salinity that exceeds that of the seawater. ❋ Unknown (2008)
White pine was once common on sandy lake plains, occupying sites from poorly drained embayments to excessively drained sand dunes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Coastal Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (CBIA, P.L. 101-591; 104 Stat. 2931) included in the System additional areas along the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys, the Virgin Islands, and secondary barriers within large embayments. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Bass moving back and forth between steep banks and embayments frequently stop and feed on bluff points. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Its shores and those of the big tributary embayments -- "drowned rivers," they have been called -- are thickly sprinkled with traces and remembrances of three and a half centuries 'people and events. ❋ United States. Dept. Of The Interior. (N/A)
The line of sea-coast, with all its varied curves, indentures, and embayments, swept away from the sight on either hand, in that varied, intricate, yet graceful and easy line, which the eye loves so well to pursue. ❋ Unknown (1917)
It is likely to show a fairly sharp contact on the side toward the intrusive, and to grade off into the country rock on the other side with numerous embayments and irregularities. ❋ Unknown (1915)
It is supposed further that these organic participants were originally localized during sedimentation in so-called estuarine channels and shore-line embayments. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Among the Aegean Isles only Naxos has a flood plain; all the rest have steep coasts, with few sand or gravel beaches, and only small deposit plains at the head of deep and precipitous embayments. ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)
To the right "the line of the sea-coast, with all its varied curves, indentures, and embayments, swept away from the sight in that intricate yet graceful line which the eye loves so well to pursue." ❋ Unknown (1887)
In the embayments of the land, where a great body of water journeys like an alternating river into extensive basins, the tidal action becomes intense; the current may be able to sweep along large stones quite as effectively as a mountain torrent. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)
