Sentences with phrase «at shallow regions»

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Grey whales feed on the seafloor at depths of up to 50 metres, and rely heavily on the shallow regions in Alaska's Bering Sea for food.

NeMO could find resources like shallow ice at low latitudes, he suggests, and could study whether there are special regions of Mars astronauts should avoid contaminating such as locations with recurring slope lineae.

According to the study, the regions which reach the highest temperatures at shallower depths, and therefore, have greater geothermal potential and are prone to more detailed studies for their development are Galicia, western Castilla y León, the Sistema Central mountain range, Andalusia and Catalonia.

Our full - lensing mass profile exhibits a shallow profile slope dln \ Sigma / dlnR \ sim -1 at cluster outskirts (R > 1Mpc / h), whereas the mass distribution excluding the NW - SE excess regions steepens further out, well described by the Navarro - Frenk - White form.

You will then head to the coast to the lovely beach of Playa Uvas where you can do some snorkeling at one of the most active shallow coral reef sites in the region.

Once you've finished our dive - in - a-day program, you can scuba dive with us at other shallow water dive spots in the region.

This hotel holds a prime position, located at the gateway to Kalydon; Crete's uninhabited island region which is famous for its pebble beaches, shallow waters, and rich, colourful history.

When I look at the SeaWiffs data I have wide spread, shallow turbidity in the region with a concentration near the former Ivory Coast.

Postscript: Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, analyzing seabed currents and mud movement after the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, have concluded that the underwater turbulence from hurricanes could be severe enough to cause mudslides and possibly imperil pipelines on the seafloor in shallow regions of the Gulf of Mexico.

With time, however, the drying of the nonprecipitating region induces a reversal of the shallow circulation, drawing the flow at low levels from the precipitating to the nonprecipitating region.

Prof Wadhams is co-author of the controversial Nature paper which calculated the potential economic costs of climate change based on a scenario of 50 Gigatonnes (Gt) of methane being released this century from melting permafrost at the East Siberia Arctic Shelf (ESAS), a vast region of shallow - water covered continental crust.

If I remember my ocean circulation correctly, the exchange between the deep ocean and the surface / shallow ocean takes place at only a few regions.

This is still very early science, and we have some estimates of what may happen to those from modelling studies, from looking at the way in which the heating of the very upper layers of the Arctic Ocean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabilise.

Our results show evidence for methane contamination of shallow drinking - water systems in at least three areas of the region and suggest important environmental risks accompanying shale - gas exploration worldwide.