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Mobile Bay is 413 square miles (1,070 km 2) in area. It is 31 miles (50 km) long by a maximum width of 24 miles (39 km). [1] The deepest areas of the bay are located within the shipping channel, sometimes in excess of 75 feet (23 m) deep, but the average depth of the bay is 10 feet (3 m). [1]
Cranes at the Port of Mobile. The Port of Mobile is a deep-water port in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It is the only deep-water port in Alabama. It was ranked by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as the 9th largest port by tonnage in the nation during 2014, with a trade volume of 64.3 million tons. This ranking had increased from ...
The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi (325 km) long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama.Together with the Alabama, it merges to form the short Mobile River before the latter empties into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico.
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The run of the Alabama is highly meandering. [2] Its width varies from 50 to 200 yards (46 to 183 m), and its depth from 3 to 40 feet (1 to 12 m). Its length as measured by the United States Geological Survey is 318.5 miles (512.6 km), [3] and by steamboat measurement, 420 miles (680 km). [4]
The Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is a field laboratory and research facility [1] along Weeks Bay estuary, about 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) in size. It receives freshwater from the Magnolia and Fish Rivers , and drains a 198 square miles (510 km 2 ) watershed into the portion of Mobile Bay via a narrow opening.
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