Sentences with phrase «along the continental shelf»

The report outlines the path that plastics in particular can take, originating from coastal and land sources and being carried along continental shelves and slopes into deep water.

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.

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.

Now Johnson and Li, who is currently at Nanjing University in China, show that half of the iron in banded iron was metabolized by ancient bacteria living along the continental shelves.

Most of the species movement was to the north along the continental shelf, but some species like the Atlantic mackerel moved closer to shore, while others like silver hake moved into deeper waters.

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

Our dive spots were the Ribbon Reefs at the far northern edge of the Great Barrier Reef, stretching for 50 miles along the continental shelf!

Female elephant seals forage in the open ocean, while male elephant seals forage along the continental shelf.

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).

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.

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.

«Convective Chimneys» are the areas of the North Atlantic where cold arctic air causes massive CO2 uptake and subsidence of ocean water, feeding into the Atlantic overturning circulation, which takes that water for a 1000 year journey from the North Atlantic to Antarctica, where it upwells along the continental shelf.

[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.

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.

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.

As the common name suggests, this species of octopus — Enteroctopus dofleini — is found in the North Pacific Ocean, along the continental shelf from the Aleutian Islands west of Alaska to Baja California in Mexico and north - eastern Japan.

DuPont estimates that if just 2.5 percent of America's coastline were used for seaweed growth — all along the continental shelf in those areas — 6.8 billion gallons of fuel could be produced per year.