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The Mississippi embayment stretches from central Louisiana into southern Missouri.

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 current sedimentary area was formed in the Cretaceous and early Cenozoic by the filling with sediment of a pre-existing basin. An explanation for the embayment's formation was put forward by Van Arsdale and Cox in 2007: movement of the Earth's crust brought this region over a volcanic "hotspot" in the Earth's mantle causing an upthrust of magma which formed the Appalachian-Ouachita range. Subsequent erosion caused a deep trough that was flooded by the Gulf of Mexico and eventually filled with sediment from the Mississippi River.

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Mississippi embayment

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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...

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Mississippi River

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States. Formed from thick layers of the river's silt deposits, the Mississippi embayment is one of the most fertile regions of the United States; steamboats...

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Mississippi Alluvial Plain

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Louisiana and (b) the upper Mississippi Embayment running from central Louisiana to Illinois. The term "Mississippi embayment" is sometimes used more narrowly...

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Gulf Coastal Plain

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Appalachian Mountains. Its northernmost extent is along the Mississippi embayment (Mississippi Alluvial Valley) as far north as the southern tip of Illinois...

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Geography of Tennessee

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overlooking the Mississippi embayment. This is the westernmost physiographic division of Tennessee, and is part of the larger Mississippi Alluvial Plain...

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Mississippi River Basin Model

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31583°W / 32.30611; -90.31583 The Mississippi River Basin Model Waterways Experiment Station, located near Clinton, Mississippi, was a large-scale hydraulic...

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Mississippi River Delta

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in dispersion of sediment deposition into the delta region. The Mississippi embayment then became a primary focus of sediment deposition during the Miocene...

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Embayment Megagroup

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sand formation that is part of the Embayment Megagroup. It runs from southern Illinois to the State of Mississippi. It thickens moving southward, starting...

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Missouri Bootheel

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southeastern lowlands of Missouri located within the Mississippi Embayment, which includes parts of Butler, Mississippi, Ripley, Scott, Stoddard and extreme southern...

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New Madrid Seismic Zone

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McGinnis, L. D. (1975). "Reelfoot Rift: Reactivated Precursor to the Mississippi Embayment". GSA Bulletin. 86 (9): 1287–1295. Bibcode:1975GSAB...86.1287E....

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Geography of Missouri

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part of the Atlantic Plain known as the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (areas 3e) or the Mississippi embayment the Missouri portion of the Ozark Plateau...

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Tennessee

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overlooking the Mississippi embayment, the westernmost physiographic division of Tennessee, which is part of the larger Mississippi Alluvial Plain. This...

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Coon Creek Formation

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between 70 and 71 million years ago. The Mississippi Embayment extends roughly north-south from central Mississippi to southern Illinois. It was formed when...

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Coastal plain

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plains of Chile Cumberland Plain, Australia Israeli coastal plain Mississippi embayment North European Plain "Coastal plain". 1996-2015 National Geographic...

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Ozarks

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geographically lying in both the Midwest and Upper South, proximity to the Mississippi embayment, the Osage and Northern Plains, contributes to changing cultural...

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Deep South

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East Texas, including West Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, and up the Mississippi embayment. The inner core of the Deep South, characterized by very rich black...

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Sanguinaria

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Nova Scotia to Florida, and west to the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi embayment. Sanguinaria canadensis grows in moist to dry woods and thickets...

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Older Southern American English

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Atlantic Coast in a band going west towards the Mississippi River, as well as all of the Mississippi Embayment and some of the western Gulf Coastal Plain....

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Arkansas Delta

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runs along the Mississippi River from Eudora north to Blytheville and as far west as Little Rock. It is part of the Mississippi embayment, itself part of...

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Aulacogen

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still visible at the surface in the area of Lake Superior. The Mississippi embayment with the associated New Madrid Seismic Zone is an example of an...

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Rift

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buried failed rift underlying the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the Mississippi embayment The Rhine Rift, in south western Germany, known as the Upper Rhine...

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Western Interior Seaway

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parts of the Western Interior Seaway still occupied areas of the Mississippi Embayment, submerging the site of present-day Memphis. Later transgression...

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Bermuda hotspot

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of the Bermuda Rise as well as the Mississippi Embayment and the Sabine Uplift southwest of the Mississippi Embayment. A 2002 paper proposes that the Bermuda...

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Geology of Tennessee

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Formation is one of these, deposited as a sandy shoreline along the Mississippi embayment during the Cretaceous. Many large sea creatures, including mosasaurs...

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List of Missouri native plants

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Province in the west and northwest, and the northward extension of the Mississippi embayment places the bootheel in the [ The wildflowers, grasses, and other...

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