What is "embayment"

Usage examples of "embayment".

Before they reached the ancient embayment, the colors shifted through the spectrum of golds and bronzes, then reds to a deep mauve.

Those not returning by water hurried back up the trail, hoping to reach the high embayment before the young couple did.

Sharamudoi were there, except those few who happened to be away: the Shamudoi, who lived on the land in the high embayment throughout the year, and their river-dwelling kin, the Ramudoi.

The coarser stones, however, either remain at the foot of the cliff until they are beaten to pieces, or are driven along the shore until they find some embayment into which they enter.

He had since learned there was a longer, easier, if less spectacular ascent to the high embayment.

The first of these, the Beauharnois Canal, connects, by a cut eleven miles long, the broad embayment called 'Lake St.

On the far side of the river there was a large embayment, or secondary valley, with a walled town built into the side of an ash cone.

But as the sun rose the shadows on the huge semicircular cliff gave way in wedges of light that revealed sharp ragged embayments, scalloping the larger curve of the wall, which was so big that Nirgal simply gasped, his nose pressed right against the windshield-it was almost frightening, it was so big!

On both sides of the Spur the immense southern cliff of Melas Chasma curved back in huge embayments, then out again to lesser prominences-a slight point on the distant horizon to the left, and a massive headland some sixty kilometers to the right, which Ann called Cape Solis.

But as the sun rose the shadows on the huge semicircular cliff gave way in wedges of light that revealed sharp ragged embayments, scalloping the larger curve of the wall, which was so big that Nirgal simply gasped, his nose pressed right against the windshield—it was almost frightening, it was so big!

On both sides of the Spur the immense southern cliff of Melas Chasma curved back in huge embayments, then out again to lesser prominences—a slight point on the distant horizon to the left, and a massive headland some sixty kilometers to the right, which Ann called Cape Solis.

Looking down into it gave them a new perspective—a proper shape to the caldera and its circular embayments, a sudden drop to a heretofore hidden floor, a thousand meters below.

Here the southern cliff finally lowered a bit, and was cut with deep embayments, and shattered by a couple of good-sized meteor craters.

It looked to Ann like the big fluted and scalloped embayments in the southern cliff were sappings that would initiate tributary subsidence canyons.

Looking down into it gave them a new perspective-a proper shape to the caldera and its circular embayments, a sudden drop to a heretofore hidden floor, a thousand meters below.