Sentences with phrase «fast flowing water»

There was increased hydraulic diversity in zones 3 and 4 but reduced hydraulic diversity in zone 1 due to a reduction in the area of slackwater, which is likely to have an adverse impact on taxa that require slackwater habitat for recruitment and survival while benefiting taxa that require faster flowing water

It is, however, a member of the Cobitidae family of loaches, called the True Loaches, which live in fast flowing waters.

The historic city of Toledo in the heart of the Iberian peninsula stands above the fast flowing waters of the River Tagus.

During this time of year we can expect higher and faster flowing water in most watercourses.

Not exact matches

On the spring tides the moon lifts up more water, so you get a faster flow.

At this stage they are ready for a better water bottle with faster drink flow.

Drinking water is being taken out faster than the aquifer can replenish, allowing salt water to flow in.

The reason: the Mississippi now flows through a conduit roughly half the width of its channel that existed before most of the levees were built, which means more water passes faster through a narrower area.

The main purpose of an artificial levee is to prevent flooding of the adjoining countryside; however, they also confine the flow of the river resulting in higher and faster water flow.

This would mean the water would have to flow at 2.46 metres per second — twice the velocity of normal airflow and therefore far faster than he could inhale and exhale, causing him to suffocate.

The tadpoles are elongated with powerful tails to cope with fast - flowing water.

«These fish seek out rocky areas in clean, fast - flowing water.

They've built levees that constrict the flow of rivers, forcing water to travel downstream faster.

Migratory fish regained access to a 20 - mile stretch that rapidly restored itself to a wide, gravel - bottomed, fast - flowing, cold - water river.

And while large, rounded pebbles certainly point to fast - flowing water, they don't indicate anything about the flow's duration, Michalski says.

In Japan, Undaria grows fastest in the cold arctic water that flows past Japan in winter, but reproduces only in the warm summer currents.

Nor are negative water tests conclusive: cholera researchers say the bacteria are hard to find in fast - flowing rivers.

Faster flow is more turbulent, and in this turbulence more heat is mixed into AABW from shallower, warmer ocean layers — thus warming the abyssal waters on their way to the Equator, affecting global climate change.

But the process could move faster if convection — in which water saturated with CO2 sinks and fresh water flows into its place to absorb more gas — were also at work.

Not only are ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica breaking up faster than scientists expected, but more of their melt water is flowing into oceans, he said, which will raise sea levels by 3.3 feet (1 meter) by 2100.

To test their sound generator, they simulated the noise of a stream, a block being dropped into water, fast - flowing water filling a bath, a dam bursting and even a rubber duck being pushed around in a bath.

They need to be in cold, fast - flowing water in schools of at least 100 individuals.

A year ago, they achieved an effect called superwicking — by which the texture of a material forces water to flow upward — on metal surfaces by etching them using extremely fast, quadrillionth of a second, high - energy laser pulses.

My guess is that what is keeping the system stable is the cold ice being convected into and past the melt pocket faster than the melt water can flow «upstream» (because the cold ice is strong enough to resist the pressure differential of the water vs ice hydrostatic pressures).

In contrast, almost all of the wells near faster - flowing water — where little new sediment was accumulating — tested below the WHO limits.

Characters are trapped in an incinerating machine, others fall into a fast - flowing stream of water.

It's tough to care about what's going on when you can't understand the dialogue (fast - talking British) and the flow of the screenplay is as choppy as the waters by the seashell beach where this take place.

Children test a variety of natural Earth surfaces to see which allows water to flow through the fastest.

If you turn up the flow rate too fast in a skimmer, water will flood the cup.

The quasi-trails we followed on the way to the river were now being washed away by fast - flowing water, mud, and rocks falling from the top of the mountain.

You were content to stay put: up to your thighs in the flow of that straight, fast run, a stretch of water bounded by an inlet at one end and a merry set of rips on the other, with a view of the bridge beyond.

The trek to Tiu Kelep leads on a beautiful footpath through a lush rainforest, crossing also a cold water fast flowing river — so needs to have proper shoes for that tour.

Walk through towering rainforests growing in sand, discover huge sandblows moving across the island, swim in beautiful fresh water lakes, wade in fast flowing creeks, drive along the world's most beautiful beach highway and marvel at coloured sand formations.

Swim in the fast flowing, clear, fresh water of Eli Creek.

Tour includes beauty sites of Fraser Island; Lake McKenzie — clear blue water with white sandy beaches, Wanggoolba Creek to Pile Valley and Central Station, the fast flowing clear fresh - water Eli Creek, Champagne Pools, Indian Head and Lake Wabby — beautiful emerald - green lake.

The water spurted backwards and started flowing out, faster than it was pushing up.

The mountainous terrain amplifies the upward flow of cyclone winds and thus intensifying how much, and how fast, water vapor gets turned into rain.

One of those lessons is that flowing water moves heat a lot faster than stationary rock.

Specifically, as global temperatures have steadily increased at their fastest rates in millions of years, it's directly affected things like water vapor concentrations, clouds, precipitation patterns, and stream flow patterns, which are all related to the water cycle.

The relatively warm water flowing through the glacier also carries surface heat deep inside the ice sheet far faster than it would otherwise penetrate by simple conduction.

This melt water lubricates the surface between the glacier and the land below, causing the glacier to flow faster into the sea.

In our case, the water is flowing into the tub faster than it's draining out.

Penetrating between the Antarctic bedrock and the ice that lies on it and lubricating the join, the water allows ice to flow faster into the sea.

Periodically, parts of the south coast experience local, wind - driven upwelling of cool bottom water, while the fast flow of the current itself drives upwelling of deep waters, where the shelf widens to form the Agulhas Bank [11].

An instrument called a Vertical Microstructure Profiler — a kind of giant toilet brush that measures subtle fluctuations in the water — detected turbulence amid meltwater as it flowed out of a cave beneath the Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica's fastest melting glaciers.

These models predicted that the Northern Hemisphere Polar region would warm fastest and first, that the Southern Ocean would draw a greater portion of atmospheric heat into the ocean system, and that land ice melt near Greenland and West Antarctica would generate cold, fresh water flows into the nearby ocean zones and set off localized cooling.

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At high water pressure, the ice will flow faster because less of it is in contact with its solid bed, meaning that cavity opening will proceed faster.

They are very successful hanging on even in very fast and turbulent water, but appear feed more often in slow to moderately flowing streams on glaciers.

What is happening is that as fast as I add water to the toddlers pool, the same amount flows out through the pipe to raise the level of the big pool.