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  2. Mississippi embayment - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi embayment represents a break in what was once a single, continuous mountain range comprising the modern Appalachian range, which runs roughly on a north–south axis along the Atlantic coast of the United States, and the Ouachita range, which runs on a rough east–west axis west of the Mississippi River.

  3. Embayment Megagroup - Wikipedia

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    The Baylis Formation is Cretaceous in age and found in the western sections of the Embayment Megagroup. It rests unconformably on Carboniferous age rock. It is composed of medium to fine grained quartz sand. The upper part of the formation is the Kiser Creek Member.

  4. Geology of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    In Mississippi, the Smackover Limestone covered over earlier evaporite deposits. A complex stratigraphic sequence formed during the Cretaceous , with the reef limestones, anhydrite and sandstones of the Rodessa Formation, Mooringsport Formation, Paluxy Formation, Gordo Formation and Coker Formation, overlain by the Eutaw Group, Austin Chalk ...

  5. Category:Mississippi embayment - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal The main article for this category is Mississippi embayment , a structural basin of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain . Not to be confused with Category:Mississippi River watershed .

  6. Crowley's Ridge - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Mississippi Alluvial Plain - Wikipedia

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    The term "Mississippi embayment" is sometimes used more narrowly to refer to its section on the western side of the river, running through eastern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, westernmost Tennessee (east side of the River), westernmost Kentucky (east side of the River) and southernmost Illinois, and excluding northwest Mississippi where the ...

  8. Bermuda hotspot - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Western Interior Seaway - Wikipedia

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    The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.

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