Sentences with phrase «along continental»

To improve upon this all - or - nothing approach, Sharples et al. have developed a new method for estimating the proportion of nutrients that reach the open ocean following biogeochemical processing along the continental shelf.

«This research shows that adult females faithfully give birth along the continental region where they were born.

[9] However, it is also thought that fresh water used in the pressurization of oil and gas wells in permafrost and along the continental shelves worldwide combines with natural methane to form clathrate at depth and pressure, since methane hydrates are more stable in fresh water than in salt water.

Upwelling of deep oceanic waters along continental margins release large concentrations of CO2, as the rising water warms and CO2 stability in water diminishes releasing the gas back into the atmosphere.

The consortium will coordinate scientific input and develop plans for future marine hydrate expeditions to conduct research drilling, recovering samples of the formation, logging and analytical activities to assess the geologic occurrence, regional context, and characteristics of methane hydrate deposits along the continental margins of the United States, likely focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic margin.

At many locations along the continental shelf break, cold polar water pushes back against the CDW, creating a barrier (analogous to an atmospheric weather front) known as the Antarctic Slope Front, which blocks CDW from getting onto the shelf.

The Gulf Stream flows northward along the rim of the warm North Atlantic Central Water, from the Florida Straits along the continental slope of North America to Cape Hatteras.

As it happens, the extra heat travels into shallow seas along the continental shelf and, over time, the warming also spreads to the deep seabed, destabilizing methane hydrates and free gas trapped over millennia in the permafrost cap.

The development of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current forever altered the carbon biological pump by increasing upwelling in the southern oceans, and later along continental west coasts by cooling upwelled waters.

This is off topic, but I was wondering about the Alaska earthquake this morning and its impact on the methane hydrates along the continental shelf.

Joe Davis's valuable daily digest of environmental coverage for the Society of Environmental Journalists includes links to several significant news stories (see below), and in the meantime I'm querying methane and Arctic specialists about the startling story from The Independent (UK) on Tuesday reporting on a «methane time bomb» discovered by an international expedition along the continental shelf off Siberia.

This 144 - mile (232 - km) stretch of Canadian highway runs along the Continental Divide past glacial ice fields, high mountain peaks, and the evergreen vastness of the Rock Mountains.

At the time of hiking along the continental divide or being dazzled by the Wilson Botanical Gardens, you will have thrilling experience.

This flight takes a specially designed route along the continental shelf adjacent to the Ribbon Reefs where you have a birds eye view of the dive sites, plus views of Endeavour Reef (where Captain Cook ran aground) and the Emily (a shipwreck sitting on top of the reef).

When the males leave their rookeries, they migrate northwards to their feeding grounds along the continental shelf from Washington to the western Aleutians in Alaska.

Prefer to feed in coastal bays and estuaries, as well as in the shallow water along the continental shelves of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Lead researcher Ryan McKenzie said the team found that periods when volcanoes along continental arcs were more active coincided with warmer, or greenhouse, conditions over the past 720 million years.

Significant OMZs are presently found along the continental margins of the East Pacific, Southeast Atlantic, West Pacific and North Indian Oceans (Levin, 2003; Helly and Levin, 2004).

Could the Arctic Ocean heat enough in these circumstances to melt the clathrates locked underwater along the continental shelves releasing even more massive amounts of methane?

However, many of the sources along the continental slope lie at cold depths in which ices have formed at high pressures within sea - floor sediments, which once trapped methane produced by microbes living there.

Most of the deposits, some small and some large, are buried in or below permafrost and sediments in the ocean bottom along continental margins — where shallow offshore waters slope down toward the deeper ocean floor.

Nearly 99 percent of them outside Antarctica reside in sediments along continental slopes, more than 500 meters underwater in midlatitudes, 300 meters in higher latitudes.

In this study, researchers analyzed hunting behaviors of mountain lions on the fringes of Denver and Boulder, Colorado, through the sprawling exurbia, and into the jagged wilderness areas along the Continental Divide.

Between 1982 and 2006, waters along the continental shelf warmed by.23 degree Celsius.

To untangle the impacts that these three climate stressors will have on seafloor diversity in the future, the researchers examined existing published data and collected new data on organisms living in deep - sea sediments in upwelling regions along continental margins, where the ocean and continental crusts meet along the seafloor.

In advance of that meeting, more than two dozen «concerned Ross Sea researchers» joined Ainley and Devries in a formal letter demanding a moratorium on fishing over the Ross Sea continental shelf and a reduction in quotas along the continental slope.

Now, along the continental shelf off south - central California, The Nature Conservancy is working to find out if trawlers provide such animals with new habitat.

It is the population along the Continental Divide that is at stake in the legal case brought against logging proposals in the Stillwater State Forest, in northwestern Montana.

Gleason and colleagues identified a strip along the continental shelf 14 kilometres from Morro Bay that had not been trawled for at least a decade.

Because the Europeans are generally raised on clay courts and the Americans on faster surfaces, the distinctions tend to run along continental lines.

Not exact matches

And along with the papacy all the West, or at least all the continental West, had finally realized that by ranking itself around the Conqueror of the Saxons it would gain in strength and in its prospects for the future.

Since its founding in 1964 as a small neighborhood «salumeria,» or Italian delicatessen making homemade pasta products, the company has since grown into a manufacturer with a distribution area that covers the entire New York metropolitan area and continental USA along with international private labeling.

Along with its mineral water brand, Arca Continental is focused on growing its share of the U.S. market through its snack brand Bokados.

Early along he did that uncool stuff — got into a bar fight, changed the pronunciation of his name from DOR - sett to Dor - SETT (which is how a buddy said they said it in France), told folks he'd be quitting football after five years to go into acting full time, had «TD» painted on the doors of his Lincoln Continental.

Along the way, Cordon Jr. began training with former World Boxing Council Continental Americas champion Andy Vences, who shared the same Concord gym where Cordon Jr. began his training.

Medela Soft Shells for Sore Nipples $ 16.00 Shipping within the Continental U.S. is $ 3.85 If purchased along with the Niplette, shipping is $ 3.85 for both items.

The resulting debris is now scattered along a 3,000 - mile - long trail, larger than the width of the continental United States.

Although this is one of the best - mapped continental margins in the world, significant gaps still remain along the upper slope and shelf where potentially dangerous submarine landslides might occur.

The Earth's lithosphere is divided into several plates that are in constant motion, and today's geologists have a good understanding of what drives these plate movements: heavier ocean plates are submerged beneath lighter continental plates along what are known as subduction zones.

The data show that some of the water upwells close to the continental shelf along the western Antarctic Peninsula.

«Our findings suggest that processes similar to those we observe in the Andes, along with the formation of supercontinents, could have been a significant contributor to the episodic formation of buoyant continental crust.»

When the Moon's shadow races across the continental United States on August 21, researchers will be waiting — in planes, on mountaintops and at other carefully chosen vantage points along the roughly 110 - kilometre - wide path of totality.

Just five populations of the hump - shouldered bruins are found in the Lower 48 states, including roughly 1,000 grizzlies along the northern Continental Divide in Montana, and an estimated 600 in and around Yellowstone National Park in the northern Rockies.

Similar blooms likely occur in many places along the Arctic's nutrient - rich continental shelf, Arrigo says.

Rock movement along the Denali fault drives the uplift of the mountains, which form at bends in the fault, where previously fractured suture - zone rocks are pinned against the stronger former North American continental margin.

So, they are coming up along this area and after a lot of urbanization, they encounter Central Park that has patch of green in their continental migration.

... Some live way off shore, but the ones I have studied prefer the continental slope area [at depths from 500 meters to 2000 meters], and that extends along the entire northern bound of the gulf.

Major concentrations off the coast of the United States have been found along the edge of the continental shelf between New Jersey and Georgia.

A series of excavations by Jim Bowler, Alan Thorne, and others in the continental interior revealed that ancient humans had fished and collected freshwater mussels along the shores of the Willandra Lakes 50,000 years ago, possibly earlier.

For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been charting fish movement along the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Ecosystem — from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to Cape Sable in Nova Scotia.