Mississippi Embayment

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geologic province sedimentary basin structural trough

The Mississippi Embayment is a broad, low-lying structural trough and sedimentary basin of the central United States that extends northward from the Gulf of Mexico and encompasses parts of several states along the lower Mississippi River.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Mississippi Alluvial Plain 2
Mississippi Embayment in Kentucky 1
Mississippi embayment 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geologic province ⓘ
sedimentary basin ⓘ
structural trough ⓘ
associatedWith New Madrid Seismic Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ
Reelfoot Rift NERFINISHED ⓘ
boundedBy Appalachian Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ouachita Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ozark Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ
containsFeature Mississippi Alluvial Plain NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mississippi Delta (in a broad sense) NERFINISHED ⓘ
containsRiver Arkansas River NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ohio River (lower reach) NERFINISHED ⓘ
St. Francis River NERFINISHED ⓘ
White River NERFINISHED ⓘ
Yazoo River NERFINISHED ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
dominantDepositionalEnvironment deltaic ⓘ
fluvial ⓘ
shallow marine ⓘ
drainage Mississippi River Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ
economicResource groundwater aquifers ⓘ
lignite ⓘ
natural gas ⓘ
petroleum ⓘ
sand and gravel ⓘ
extendsFrom Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ
extendsNorthwardAlong lower Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ
filledWith Cretaceous sediments ⓘ
Quaternary alluvium ⓘ
Tertiary sediments ⓘ
geologicAge Cretaceous ⓘ
Neogene NERFINISHED ⓘ
Paleogene NERFINISHED ⓘ
importantFor agriculture ⓘ
floodplain ecosystems ⓘ
locatedIn Arkansas ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ
Kentucky ⓘ
Louisiana ⓘ
Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ
central United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
maximumSedimentThickness over 3000 meters ⓘ
overlies Paleozoic rocks ⓘ
Precambrian basement rocks ⓘ
partOf Gulf Coastal Plain NERFINISHED ⓘ
seismicHazard high for central United States ⓘ
surfaceTopography broad low-lying plain ⓘ
tectonicOrigin subsidence along reactivated rift structures ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Interior Highlands → borderedBy → Mississippi Embayment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mississippi Alluvial Plain
Pennyrile region → borderedBy → Mississippi Embayment ⓘ
Pennyroyal region of Kentucky → borders → Mississippi Embayment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mississippi Embayment in Kentucky
Missouri Bootheel → locatedIn → Mississippi Embayment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mississippi Alluvial Plain
Missouri Bootheel → locatedIn → Mississippi Embayment ⓘ
Jackson Purchase → physiographicRegion → Mississippi Embayment ⓘ
New Madrid Seismic Zone margin structures → relatedTo → Mississippi Embayment ⓘ
this entity surface form: Mississippi embayment