337:. Numerous examples of kettle lakes can be found to the northwest of the Cape Cod Canal. Finally, waters released from the melting ice sheet raised sea level by sixty to one-hundred-twenty meters (198–396 feet) and drowned preexisting outwash channels. Toward the end of the last ice age, fifteen thousand years ago until about six thousand years ago, Buzzards Bay was still dry land. During the past six thousand years, sea level has risen an average of one foot per century, and until about four thousand years ago, the landward boundary of Buzzards Bay extended only to about the current thirty-foot bathymetric contour, forming a coastline two-thirds of the way up the current bay, between West Falmouth and Mattapoisett.
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The bay's current configuration, a well-mixed central bay and fringing shallow drowned-river valleys, with their shallow depth, tidal action, and surface waves, promotes mixing of the
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waters to create a productive aquatic ecosystem. Like many estuaries, however, increasing development and land-use changes by the surrounding communities are accompanied by
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composed of mixed sediments and ice that bordered the bay to the northwest and west. Melting ice blocks in the outwash deposits formed distinctive circular features called
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the world's most successful whaling port during the early- and mid-19th century, and has been the nation's most productive fishing port for the last several years.
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epoch through the interplay of glacial and oceanic processes. Beginning fifty thousand to seventy thousand years ago, the edges of the continental
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Buzzards Bay.
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This article is about the body of water. For the adjacent village, see
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In addition to the moraines, the melting ice sheet produced extensive
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retrieved two vessels that were captured by the
British sloop of war
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts designated Buzzards Bay to the
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Buzzards Bay was created during the latter portion of the
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Green, Eugene; Sachse, William; McCaulley, Brian (2006).
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The Buzzards Bay disaster happened on April 27, 2003. An
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is a historically significant port on Buzzards Bay; the
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Buzzards Bay was first named Gosnold's Hope by Captain
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Bodies of water of Barnstable County, Massachusetts
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811:"Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches: Number 6"
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1088:1906 Bird's Eye View of Buzzards Bay
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457:Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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1235:Broad Sound North Entrance Channel
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1098:Sailing Buzzards Bay: Photographs
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821:from the original on 22 July 2017
175:250 sq mi (650 km)
629:List of islands of Massachusetts
512:2017–18 North American cold wave
445:(14 guns, 110 men). Crew member
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809:Museum, New Bedford Whaling.
763:. Arcadia Press. p. 57.
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2020:South Branch Souhegan River
737:. G.H. Dean. pp. 3–9.
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21:Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
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2670:Estuaries of Massachusetts
2233:North Branch Millers River
1076:The Buzzards Bay watershed
815:New Bedford Whaling Museum
657:"Buzzards Bay Quick Facts"
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196:New Bedford, Massachusetts
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2213:Mill River (Northampton)
388:Birds eye view map, 1909
270:It is surrounded by the
260:National Estuary Program
1557:Rivers of Massachusetts
159:28 mi (45 km)
1093:Buzzards Bay Coalition
1043:NASA Earth Observatory
465:Benthic Turbidity Zone
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167:8 mi (13 km)
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2438:Salisbury Plain River
2178:East Brookfield River
1901:Stony Brook (Waltham)
761:The Names of Cape Cod
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1896:Stony Brook (Boston)
894:allthingsliberty.com
731:Banks, C.E. (1911).
421:Battle off Fairhaven
25:Buzzards Bay (horse)
1916:Weymouth Back River
1346:Provincetown Harbor
1341:Port of New Bedford
417:American Revolution
394:Bartholomew Gosnold
300:Port of New Bedford
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44:Map of Buzzards Bay
2622:Upper New York Bay
2537:Quinsigamond River
2106:Roger Island River
2025:South Nashua River
1985:North Nashua River
1955:Cochichewick River
1781:Little Pamet River
1611:Mattapoisett River
1439:Roger Island River
1245:Fort Point Channel
1240:Canapitsit Channel
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991:2010-06-25 at the
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589:Veckatimest Island
463:to grow above the
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2130:Long Island Sound
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1980:Nissitissit River
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1801:Massachusetts Bay
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1699:Oyster Pond River
1684:Coonamesset River
1621:Paskamanset River
1616:Nasketucket River
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1331:Marblehead Harbor
1311:Barnstable Harbor
1250:Hypocrite Channel
1182:Massachusetts Bay
770:978-1-933212-84-5
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569:Nonamesset Island
539:Elizabeth Islands
318:covering much of
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2483:Winnetuxet River
2468:Three Mile River
2428:Quequechan River
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2297:Housatonic River
2288:Housatonic River
2263:Seven Mile River
2183:Farmington River
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2000:Quinapoxet River
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2193:Five Mile River
2173:Deerfield River
2168:Cranberry River
2148:Burnshirt River
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1970:Merrimack River
1935:Artichoke River
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1886:North River
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1177:Hingham Bay
1172:Duxbury Bay
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469:mariculture
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312:Pleistocene
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2583:Cole River
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2502:Abbott Run
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1945:Back River
1911:Weir River
1906:Stop River
1839:Fore River
1791:Town Brook
1669:Bass River
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1449:Skug River
1404:Fore River
1389:Bass River
1379:Back River
1212:Quincy Bay
1192:Nahant Bay
1053:2006-05-08
1009:boston.com
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745:2019-12-06
636:References
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224:U.S. state
164:Max. width
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435:Fairhaven
398:colonists
374:sea birds
370:shellfish
342:estuarine
316:ice sheet
266:Geography
130:Etymology
1278:Cat Cove
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665:Archived
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362:scallops
358:eelgrass
324:moraines
288:Plymouth
276:Cape Cod
81:Location
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1303:Harbors
1134:Coastal
518:Islands
439:Success
402:buzzard
380:History
366:herring
306:Geology
284:Bristol
246:by the
240:tourism
236:boating
232:fishing
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