Sentences with word «brackish»

Like the ancestors of modern terrestrial creatures, Qingmendous dwelled in brackish waters of lagoons, bays and deltas — within spitting distance of land.

The vaquita, a porpoise living in brackish waters where the Colorado River empties into the Gulf of California, is critically endangered, biologists say, depleted by fishing nets and the disruptions in the great river's flow in the 20th century from dam construction.

This show's single work is a 21 - foot - long table sculpture of a tiny tanker - truck crossing a narrow causeway in what is undoubtedly a man - made lake of brackish water.

In addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metals.

Our toilets are serviced with brackish water from a shallow well to further minimize our fresh water utilizations.

Instead, brackish groundwater underneath the beaches has accumulated the second highest levels of the radioactive element (surpassed only by the groundwater directly beneath the reactor), researchers report October 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Brent Spiner will reprise his Independence Day role as Dr. Brackish Okun in Independence Day 2, alongside new cast member Joey King.

It was quite a surprise when it was announced that Brent Spiner would be returning as Dr. Brackish Okun for Independence Day: Resurgence, given that it appeared he died in the original 1996 movie.

At Sidon, for example, the team found crustaceans typical of brackish lagoons in the cores, indicating that the bays were fairly sheltered.

University of Bristol biologist Christos C. Ioannou and his colleagues sought to find out by turning to a small fish called the three - spined stickleback, which inhabits brackish coastal waters throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

One method is to use brackish water that is not fit for drinking or agricultural use but can be suitable for fracking.

He said that they were probably similar to the bull sharks of today because they could survive in brackish swamps and shallow oceans.

I have a familial and friendly attraction to brackish places.

Unlike other freshwater turtles, these guys venture into brackish water for days at a time.

Dominated by brackish marsh, this area was badly damaged by saltwater intrusion and erosion following the dredging of the MRGO.

Many going into and inhabiting brackish and freshwater.

The most southern unit is brackish mangrove swamp associated with Punta Ycacos lagoon system.

«Ancient Arctic sharks tolerated brackish water 50 million years ago.»

The genomes may not yet answer where these plankton came from, but they will help scientists to better understand brackish ecosystems.

Zenk says the company hopes to produce 300 barrels of oil from algae grown in brackish ponds at its test facility in Las Cruces, N.M., by 2011 and 10,000 barrels a day in five years.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

«And again, given that Hoyo Negro pit was dry when Naia made her way to the bottom, the florets had to have grown between the time of her death and 10,000 years ago when the bottom of the pit became submerged by brackish water because of rising sea level.

«Increased freshwater runoff from the land due to an intensified hydrologic cycle and a humid Arctic would have turned it more brackish pretty quickly,» she said.

In my experience, ghost and glass shrimp are the same, and they inhabit freshwater to very slightly brackish environments.

This is also true of soft - shelled turtles (Apalone ferox), which have easily bruised shells and require a somewhat different setup (shallower water and a fine sandy bottom), and diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin), a stunning beauty that requires brackish water rather than fresh to avoid shell fungus.

In fact, each of the nine teams of EPA divers averages over 100 logged missions each year in all varieties of aquatic habitats, ranging from freshwater lakes, rivers, and quarries, to brackish estuaries and the salty waters of the open ocean.

«This study shows the Arctic Ocean was very brackish and had reduced salinity back then,» said University of Chicago postdoctoral researcher Sora Kim, first author on the study.

But until that lifestyle change comes about through a ridiculously difficult effort on their part to walk away from an addiction, you see brackish water.

Using more pure water from offshore aquifers rather than ocean water has the potential to reduce desalination costs, the authors argue — with reverse osmosis, desalination costs for ocean water run between 53 cents and $ 1.50 per cubic meter, while the cost to process brackish water from offshore aquifers runs between 10 cents and $ 1.

On islands that are less than a thousand feet long and where fresh water turns brackish less than a dozen feet deep, overwash can have a crippling effect.

Duncan has founddozens of varieties of the grass over the years, in mangrove swamps andlow - lying bogs; some can remain submerged under brackish water for aslong as a month.

The population exposed to fluctuating selective pressure in a spawning area with occasional brackish water intrusions tolerated higher salinities on average, and performed reasonably well over a range of different salinities.

When saltwater and freshwater mix together, the result is reactive brackish water that dissolves the calcium - and carbon - rich limestone walls, eroding the rock and enlarging a cave's passageways.

Is it better for a city to import freshwater or to import electricity to desalinate brackish water in deep aquifers below?

Secretive marsh birds like clapper rails, king rails and soras — one of which has already been found oiled — frequent brackish and salt marsh habitat.

Some samples came from salty or brackish bays and lagoons, others from freshwater lakes and bayous.

(Blue - purple represents time spent in fresh water, green reflects brackish water, and orange - to - red colors mean the fish was in seawater.)

In any case, a new market analysis by Lux Research forecasts that the global desalinated water supply will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent during the next decade as Australia, Israel, Singapore, California and others build desalinization plants for seawater and inland brackish water as well as for water recycling.

The St Lucia lake itself is generally brackish and is located on a large sandy expanse known as the Maputaland coastal plain.

This rapid proliferation of unconventional oil and gas recovery has also resulted in millions of gallons of highly brackish wastewater, which comes up with the retrieved oil and gas.

A. bridgei is the last common ancestor of modern jawed fishes and supposedly lived in quite shallow brackish waters.

During moderate duration exercise, these sports drinks may seem like a godsend - they taste good (your body craves the salt and sugar), they go down easily, and they taste better than lukewarm brackish bottle water.

Recognized for its calm and crystal clear brackish salted lagoon, the «Uembje» Lagoon diking to the great Indian Ocean past the tall dunes, it is reported to be the nearest beach destination to the city of Johannesburg in the neighboring South Africa.

That might sounds brackish or arrogant, but sometimes self love is what it takes.

The main challenge Rietow took on was the restoration of brackish ancient ponds.

Surrounded by water, several thousand islands in the Greek Archipelago face the paradox of little or no fresh water of their own: wells produce brackish water or they produce salt water.