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The Mississippi embayment is a physiographic feature in the south-central United States, part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It is essentially a northward continuation of the fluvial sediments of the Mississippi River Delta to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois .
The Bermuda hotspot is a supposed midplate hotspot swell in the Atlantic Ocean 500–1,000 km (310–620 mi) southeast of Bermuda, [1] proposed to explain the extinct volcanoes of the Bermuda Rise as well as the Mississippi Embayment [2] [3] [4] and the Sabine Uplift southwest of the Mississippi Embayment.
During the Cenozoic, the Mississippi Embayment was filled by large river and delta systems, depositing sediments reaching up to 45,000 feet thick beneath the Gulf Coastal Plain and 35,000 feet in the Terrebonne Trench, west of the Mississippi River.
Mississippi embayment Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain is an alluvial plain created by the Mississippi River on which lie parts of seven U.S. states , from southern Louisiana to southern Illinois (Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana).
A record of this rifting event remains as an indelible mark on the landscape called Mississippi Embayment. It is this embayment that ripped the dramatic gap between the southern Appalachians and the Ouachita-Ozark Highlands. [19] Weathering and erosion prevailed, and the mountains began to wear away. [18]
As of Thursday afternoon, only a fraction of the more than 3,000 bills filed by lawmakers this year have made it through the Mississippi Legislature's third deadline, with issues such as election ...
Mississippi Legislators have filed more than 2,000 bills by Tuesday deadline, and lawmakers are making good on promises to focus on health, retirement, workforce development and education funding.
Crowley's Ridge (also Crowleys Ridge) is a geological formation that rises 250 to 550 feet (170 m) above the alluvial plain of the Mississippi embayment in a 150-mile (240 km) line from southeastern Missouri to the Mississippi River near Helena, Arkansas.