Sentences with phrase «aleutian island chain»

For example, interest in the Maldives — an island chain southwest of India that is fighting rising sea levels — jumped 68 percent from 2016 to 2017.

One of the main areas that China's expansion has focused on has been the Spratly Island chain close to the Philippines.

This island chain is in dispute, with Japan claiming that two of the Kuril Islands were seized by the Soviet Union following World War II and actually belong to Japan.

Within the sea is the Kuril Island chain, which links Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido with the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.

While much of the Canadian focus has been on China and India, Beijing has increasingly been engaging countries along the island chains.

Beyond closer economic and political ties within the island chains, China also gains influence at the U.N., as the islands account for 14 votes in the General Assembly.

Rooted in the Island Chain Defence Theory, Paskal advocated for Canadian policy - makers to view Oceania through a geopolitical lens.

The theoretical basis of Paskal's argument was the «Island Chain Defence Theory.»

Because the storm destroyed much of the already limited stock of affordable housing throughout the island chain, he couldn't find much of anything.

They visited Tahiti and other island chains including the Cook Islands to spread the Gospel and were the first missionary family to visit Samoa.

In the last century, coffee has jumped across the island chain, breaking new ground in flavors and growing techniques.

«The history of the Second World War shows the importance of Vanuatu and the Pacific Island chain to Australia's security,» WA Liberal MP and former army officer Andrew Hastie told The Australian Financial Review.

Tahiti, an island which is part of a southern Pacific island chain, has a tropical climate that makes it an ideal location for growing vanilla.

They are drawn to an island chain that is thought of as one of the last undeveloped places on Earth, famous for lush greenery and clear seas.

Similar research since has found what may be the genetic signatures of Norwegian Viking Age mice in modern populations on the Azores, an island chain more than 900 miles west of Portugal.

The 700 - kilometer island chain in the Bay of Bengal lurched southeast toward Sumatra by as much as 1.25 meters and twisted counterclockwise, Prithvish Nag, India's surveyor general, told a scientific meeting here last week.

Fryer, of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, is confident that more evidence of the massive tsunami will be found, confirming that events of this magnitude have rocked the island chain in the not - so - distant past.

«An important next thing to do is to look for evidence for tsunamis elsewhere in the Hawaiian island chain,» said Witter.

Like so many others along this steamy island chain, he's wearing shorts and a billowing Hawaiian shirt.

It is not only producing midplate volcanoes in the island chains above its location deep beneath the central Pacific but also has produced older volcanic chains now submerged in the northwest Pacific that erupted as the Pacific plate drifted over the central Pacific over the last 100 million years.

The plume anomaly is consistent with partial melting, melt extraction, and remixing of hot rocks and is spreading north toward the mid-ocean ridge instead of, as projected, eastward with the migrating Nazca plate on which the island chain sits, says co-author Douglas R. Toomey, a professor in the UO's Department of Geological Sciences.

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

Many of the insects are close relatives of species found in Eurasia at the time, indicating that there may have been island chains linking India and southern Asia by 50 million years ago.

The tsunami warning covered coastal areas from Nikolski to Attu at the western end of the Aleutian island chain.

South Pacific land snails are rare to begin with, but they have taken a hit in the last few decades after residents of Raiatea, in the Society Island chain some 5000 kilometers south of Hawaii, began importing predatory snails from Florida in 1986 to eat another kind of pest snail.

University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three - dimensional scan of Earth's interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland.

The fate of an island chain's president may mean more — or even less — progress to combat climate change.

Seismologists proposed some 30 years ago that stationary plumes of hot rock in the mantle occasionally punched through the crust to produce volcanoes, which, as the crust moved, generated island chains such as the Galapagos, Cape Verde and Canary islands.

Formed from volcanic eruptions, the Hawaiian archipelago, like other island chains, has a breathtaking variety of species — many found nowhere else on Earth — that evolved from a few hardy pioneers.

An international team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena now analyzed for the first time, the genomes of the first settlers who lived on the island chains Tonga and Vanuatu 3100 - 2500 years ago.

Fossils of single - celled algae survived a volcanic eruption to reveal the origins of an island chain.

Alaska's Bogoslof volcano, which juts its head above the Bering Sea halfway down the Aleutian Island chain, has long been monitored by scientists.

Their discovery, published Sept. 5 in Science Express, helps explain the «hotspot volcanoes» that give birth to island chains such as Hawai'i and Tahiti.

One idea is that there might have been a hot spot, such as the one still forming the Hawaiian island chain, which North America slowly slid over.

The finding, in combination with evidence from previous studies, suggests that these molten regions deep below, near the core - mantle boundary of the Earth, may cause basaltic ocean island chains to form along the surface.

The proximity of these ULVZs below volcanic island chains has prompted theories suggesting that the giant reservoirs of molten rock feed the mantle plumes that create the islands on Earth's surface.

Even though the tiny island chain is only about 10 kilometers across, researchers hadn't realized the extent of the penguin population, says study coauthor Heather Lynch, an ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York.

Now research out of the University of Rochester is providing a better picture of the subterranean plumbing system that feeds the Galápagos volcanoes, as well as a major difference with another Pacific Island chain — the Hawaiian Islands.

Strong east - west currents, a possible island chain, and even the Congo River's enormous flow of fresh water might have helped cichlids across the South Atlantic, which was of course much narrower then.

On an expedition to an icy island chain off the Antarctic Peninsula's northern tip, researchers discovered a massive supercolony of more than 1.5 million Adélie penguins, according to a study published March 2 in Scientific Reports.

The plate's movement is evidenced by the sharp bend in the Emperor - Hawaiian island chain, a series of volcanoes that includes the Hawaiian Islands.

As the plates drift across the hot spots, a chain of volcanoes forms — such as the island chains of Hawaii and Samoa.

The volcano is part of the South Sandwich Islands chain, which stretches from the southern tip of South America to the Antarctic mainland.

They will redeploy on July 21 to continue exploring more of the uncharted ocean near the island chains of Sangihe and Talaud.

Known as hotspots, volcanic island chains such as Samoa can ancient primordial signatures from the early solar system that have somehow survived billions of years.

The first suggestion of the possible benefits of cocoa came from epidemiologic studies conducted in Kuna Indians, an Amerind population living in the San Blas Island chain off the Coast of Panama that is known to have an extremely low prevalence of atherosclerotic disease, hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia (14, 15).

Fifteen named storms have formed in the Central Pacific but none have hit the island chain.

Storm surge levels are highly localized, particularly in island chains, where two locations just several miles apart border water in different directions.

Delilah (she looks 15 but never shares her age) has stopped telling us about the variety of raw, organic chocolates on display and started in on why she, after a fight with her parents, found herself on Kauai, the least populated island in Hawaii, the most isolated island chain in the world.

I was told that at the beginning of Dead Island: Riptide, the players have a brief series of mishaps and end up on a neighboring island chain.