Sentences with phrase «brackish water»

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.

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

The team filled the central chamber of their cell with brackish water containing 5 grams of sodium chloride per litre, as might be found in an estuary, and applied a voltage of 0.55 volts to the setup.

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

A prehistoric sea trout spawned in brackish waters at the feet of glaciers, and from him both strains of fish have descended.

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

-- Heikki Peltonen, Finnish Environment Institute, MRC, Finland, Behavioural responses of brackish water fish on underwater noise — novel experimental approaches

The region is a chain of hundreds of mangrove islets, tall sawgrass marsh, and brackish water where salt and fresh water mix, located off the southwest coast of Florida, roughly between the cities of Naples and Flamingo.

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.

«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.

Chilka is the largest brackish water lake in Asia inhabited by innumerable species of birds.

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.

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.

These layers meet and mix in a lens of brackish water called the halocline.

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.

All the genetically pure Cuban crocodiles were let go in areas of the Zapata Swamp that are free of American crocodiles — the latter mostly stick to brackish waters whereas Cubans need freshwater.

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.

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

(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 Laboratory of Brackish Water Hydrobiology is the youngest laboratory in the Zoological Institute.

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

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.

Santa Rosa Beach and much of this stretch of the Emerald Coast is known for its powder - white sand, and beautiful dunes lining the ocean creating brackish water inlets and coastal dune lakes — a rarity around the world.

Don't expect much from the bathrooms — cold brackish water showers and peeling paint feature in most.

These are primarily brackish water animals.

With emerald green, brackish waters surrounded by an impressive limestone karst formation naturally sculpted through the years by the weather, Barracuda Lake offers not only a splendid place to visit, but also one of the most original dive sites in the region.

I was glad to spend a summer afternoon poolside with the «Pretty Ugly» crew, ruffling brackish water, pushing flotsam around.

For two years the boat sat docked and unused as the sun and brackish water aged it.

The new techniques impact far less land surface, use and recycle brackish water, and emit fewer air pollutants and (plant - fertilizing) carbon dioxide every year.

«We were able to uniformly populate our nanowire array with S. ovata using buffered brackish water with trace vitamins as the only organic component.»

As they grow and mature, the fish move downriver into the most brackish waters of the lower Hudson.

Finally a few home truths bubble up from the still brackish waters.

Aquaculture operations require brackish water, naturally found on the coast.

L. parva live in marine, freshwater and brackish habitats, while L. goodei prefer fresh water but can tolerate brackish waters.

The disease lives in brackish water and is closely associated with rainfall linked to the ENSO, spreading through contaminated water and shellfish.

Irrigation is from a shallow well that has a high sulfur smell to it suggesting it is filled with brackish water.

Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us — and thus meets the truth about itself.

When he reached Africa, he was confronted by harsh, forbidding jungle; brackish water; villainous insects; rakish, haphazard villages; illness and misery.

Pei Xu develops innovative treatment and desalination technologies for alternative water sources such as municipal wastewater, brackish water, desalination concentrate, oil - and gas - produced water and hydraulic fracturing flowback water.

The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water.