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Chesapeake Bay

noun

  1. an inlet of the Atlantic, in Maryland and Virginia. 200 miles (320 km) long; 4–40 miles (6–64 km) wide.


Chesapeake Bay

/ ˈtʃɛsəˌpiːk /

noun

  1. the largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US: bordered by Maryland and Virginia
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Chesapeake Bay

  1. Large bay on the Atlantic Ocean in the states of Maryland and Virginia .
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That is what I asked voters over lunch at a crab shack on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

From BBC

Researchers measured pyrite from nine sites along a Maryland shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay that serves as a proxy for early ocean conditions.

Officials said they are assessing whether pier protection needs to be improved on other Maryland bridges, particularly the Chesapeake Bay Bridge near Annapolis, which links Baltimore and Washington to Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

These grassy streamside areas absorb nutrients and sediment runoff that would otherwise pollute the local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay.

In a comprehensive study of surfclams collected from an area about 45 miles due east from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Rutgers scientists found the population to be thriving and growing.

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