Sentences with phrase «atlantic ocean around»

In Figure 13 below (from Kennett 1990), the bottom frame labeled Proteus, illustrates a simplified vertical structure of the Atlantic Ocean around 60 million years ago.

The geographic region that will see a total solar eclipse, known as the path of totality, is 70 miles wide, hitting land westward of Salem, Oregon (just south of Portland) around 10:15 am and moving out over the Atlantic Ocean around 2:50 pm just after passing through Columbia, South Carolina.

Not exact matches

Viewers witness how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a vast submarine «waterfall» off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents around the world; and how the sun's heating up of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a colossally powerful hurricane.

Certainly in the Islamic world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the China Sea, it is religion that offers a militant challenge to every form of secularity (including the Marxist one), and not the other way around.

Across the Atlantic Ocean, the Netherlands - based nonprofit organization UTZ has devoted itself a similar mission: to advance the well - being of farming communities around the world while safeguarding natural resources.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

One set is called Heinrich events, which were periods when large numbers of icebergs broke off glaciers and traveled around the north Atlantic Ocean.

The end - Triassic extinction has been linked to a spate of volcanic eruptions around the birth of the central Atlantic Ocean.

The simulations suggest that over decades, these warming events dramatically perturb the ocean surface, affecting the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.

While the shipping industry — which now has easy northern access between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may be cheering this «natural» development, scientists worry about the impact of the resulting rise in sea levels around the world.

Many geologists attribute the Brunswick Magnetic Anomaly to a belt of 200 million year old volcanic rocks that intruded around the time the Atlantic Ocean.

And the Atlantic is not the only ocean on the globe with such mercurial currents: A similar effort to understand the dynamics of the southern ocean around Antarctica would help explain the complexity of ocean and climate interactions.

They send them out across the Atlantic Ocean to fly above imminent storms forming out around like the Canary Islands, so that they can really start to get a sense of how do hurricanes form and how do they get launched into the trajectories that they follow.

It also showed that Caribbean and Hawaiian monk seals split into distinct species around 3 to 4 million years ago — the same time the Panamanian Isthmus closed off the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which would have naturally separated the two.

The four right whale species live in distinct locations: around 300 Atlantic Northern Right Whales live in the North Atlantic; approximately 200 Pacific Northern Right Whales live in the North Pacific; about 7,500 Southern Right Whales are spread throughout the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere; and 8,000 — 9,200 Bowhead Whales are distributed entirely in the Arctic Ocean.

I've looked at other areas of other oceans but I've only seen them in the oceans around Australia, plus one in the South Atlantic.

Around five million years ago, the loggerhead turtle was globally distributed in the Atlantic and the Pacific, until the rise of the Isthmus of Panama split the population into two groups (one in each ocean).

A rugged chain of volcanic mountains, the midocean ridge, runs down the center of the Atlantic, around Africa into the Indian Ocean, between Australia and Antarctica, and across the South Pacific, then up the East Pacific to California, where it becomes the San Andreas Fault.

Fake paper fools global warming naysayers The man - made - global - warming - is - a-hoax crowd latched onto a study this week in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies by researchers at the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, who reported that soil bacteria around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans belch more than 300 times the carbon dioxide released by all fossil fuel emission, strongly implying that humans are not to blame for climate change.

In around 1611, a boatload of European settlers crossed the Atlantic Ocean, headed for the four - year - old colony at Jamestown.

«This implies that a very rapid transmission process must have operated, that linked rapid climate change around Greenland with the otherwise sluggish deep Atlantic Ocean circulation,» said Gottschalk.

You go to the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean, you take a cup out, and it probably has a trillion phages floating around in it.

Using multiple climate models from around the world, Clement's research team removed the ocean circulation from the analysis to reveal that variations in the Atlantic climate were generally the same.

Using the Saharan Air Layer as a proxy for volcanic ash, the test aircraft will now fly over the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco to prove the equipment can detect the fine particles of sand at altitudes of up to 20,000 feet and a distance of around 100 km.

Warner says if all the ice were gone, we could sail right through part of Antarctica, going from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean without going around Cape Horn at the tip of South America.

A typical oceanographic mooring, like one deployed in the northwest Atlantic Ocean by the Global Ocean Ecoystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, holds a large array of instrumentation: seven current meters, seven temperature gauges, three optical turbidity scanners, four salinity / conductivity / pressure meters, and one Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that records surface ocean current patterns around the mooOcean by the Global Ocean Ecoystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, holds a large array of instrumentation: seven current meters, seven temperature gauges, three optical turbidity scanners, four salinity / conductivity / pressure meters, and one Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that records surface ocean current patterns around the mooOcean Ecoystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) program, holds a large array of instrumentation: seven current meters, seven temperature gauges, three optical turbidity scanners, four salinity / conductivity / pressure meters, and one Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) that records surface ocean current patterns around the mooocean current patterns around the mooring.

These ships rapidly shuttled tea and other goods back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and around the globe.

An example of a place on Earth where this has happened is the South Atlantic ocean, which resulted from the break up of South America and Africa around 138m years ago — ever noticed how their coastlines match like pieces of the same puzzle?.

Welp, it's Columbus Day, and while your grade school textbook probably filled you in on the basics (he sailed across the Atlantic ocean blue in 1492 to «discover» the «New World,» etc.), there were also a few, uhm, less - than - pleasant outcomes to his journeys around the Americas — namely slavery, genocide, widespread disease, and generally tyrannical behavior.

At sea, the species forages generally within a 400 - 600 km radius around Ascension, but satellite tracking indicates use of the Atlantic Ocean to the coast of Brazil.

The gorgeous views of both the Atlantic Ocean during sunrise and Caicos Bank for sunset on the 360 ° wrap around terrace, the ambiance never gets old for any meal of the day.

Surround yourself with panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and Caicos Bank to the west to take in the stunning sunrises and sunsets from the signature wrap - around terrace.

Fans of adventure sports will enjoy kayaking and stand up paddle - boarding in the beautiful lakes or ocean, surfing the Atlantic waves or canyoning down the gorgeous waterfalls around the island.

Home to around 838,000 people, it is the second most populated isle in the archipelago after nearby Tenerife and, while it is located in the Atlantic Ocean close to Africa, it is undoubtedly a Spanish island.

Wind around Hout Bay to Nordhoek and drive along the cliffs towering next to the Atlantic Ocean.

East of Puerto Rico between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean at the top of the arc of Caribbean islands consisting of 3 main islands and around 50 smaller islets and cays.

A large wrap around patio at this corner unit affords unobstructed views of the Atlantic Ocean and manicured gardens.

The sapphire Atlantic Ocean, verdant golf courses, and lush El Yunque Rainforest border the 500 - acre Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Puerto Rico Golf & Beach Resort, ensuring stunning vistas all around.

Full elegance of individual condominium living, including full kitchen and breakfast bar, dining area, floor to ceiling windows overlooking the Atlantic Ocean or Oyster Pond) and wrap - around balconies that all have some ocean view (if not directly over the oOcean or Oyster Pond) and wrap - around balconies that all have some ocean view (if not directly over the oocean view (if not directly over the oceanocean)

Sail around Cumberland Island and in Cumberland Sound, the Atlantic Ocean, and Amelia River on a 28» to 34» sailboat.

For true travel aficionados, there is even a slightly more expensive «Around the World» option that gives you a maximum of five stopovers and one crossing for both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

3,005 sq. ft. - Direct Ocean Front - Wrap Around Balcony - Kitchen - Over 3,000 square feet of living space and a wraparound balcony spanning three sides of the building offering panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and Fort Lauderdale Beach make this the ultimate beachfront experience.

There's a real fresh and clean feel to Essaouira as you walk around the Medina and the ramparts overlooking the Atlantic ocean.

The higher salt content of the Atlantic water means that it is denser than fresher Arctic water, so it circulates through the Arctic Ocean at a depth of around 100 meters (328 feet).

Consequently, when a new model is developed it is often checked whether it can reproduce a «realistic» Atlantic THC [and also other ocean circulations such as around the Antarctic].

And since the 1970 ′ s on average there's about a 4 % increase in water vapor over the Atlantic Ocean and when that gets caught into a storm, it invigorates the storm so the storm itself changes, and that can easily double the influence of that water vapor and so you can get up to an 8 % increase, straight from the amount of water vapor that's sort of hanging around in the atmosphere.

As I've written in a brief piece for Thursday's paper, relatively plankton - free (and thus fish - free) stretches of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans around the tropics that typically cover about 20 percent of the global ocean surface have expanded about 15 percent since 1998, according to the new study.

It's always worth remembering that the other end of the AMOC involves two main factors: (1) vorticity - mixing of heat from surface waters into the deep abyssal ocean (which decreases density causing the Atlantic Deep Water to start rising above the colder Antarctic Bottom Water) and (2) the wind - driven upwelling around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

They found that the North Pacific had released large amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere around 15,000 years ago, when ocean currents in the Atlantic were also changing rapidly.

They are sent by train to the port of Baltimore, where they steam to sea through the Chesapeake Bay, then south across the Atlantic Ocean and around Africa's Cape of Good Hope to reach Asian ports.