Sentences with phrase «filling embayments»
Ice shelf - A floating slab of ice of considerable thickness extending from the coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a level or gently sloping surface), often filling embayments in the coastline of the ice sheets.
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This suggests that Serenichthys was using a shallow, waterweed - filled embayment of the estuary as a nursery, as many fish do today,» says Gess.