Sentences with phrase «by brackish»

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

«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.

Not exact matches

Blackwater is a bastardization of Brackwater, as in, the water is brackish, quite salty in fact, because the Essex coast is dry, by English standards anyway.

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.

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.

A study published in Genome Biology, led by Anders Andersson at KTH Royal Institute of Technology / SciLifeLab, shows that the closest relatives of bacterial plankton in the Baltic Sea are not found in oceans or freshwater lakes, but in other brackish environments.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

Vibrio bacteria live in coastal bodies of salt water or brackish water; people can contract the bugs by swimming in contaminated water or even eating contaminated raw seafood, like oysters.

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.

Brackish - water environments and Rift Lake habitats will benefit greatly from these rocks since they buffer water chemistry by gradually leaching compounds that make water harder.

By the time you reach Florida, the ground water is hard and alkaline, which is great for African cichlids, many livebearers and brackish - water species, but not so good for many others.

This portion of the watershed, which will be an extension to Crissy Field Marsh, will entail restoring an area previously covered by pavement, landfill and Doyle Drive into creek, dune, and brackish marsh.

Peanut - shaped, with a brackish seawater lake towards its western coast, this arid island is ringed by a good selection of places to stay and is the most affordable of the three islands.

The brackish lake is inhabited by many heavenly birds.

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

Since Bermuda's wells only yield brackish or salt water, Bermudians collect rainwater by paving grooves into their roofs in order to funnel water into underground tanks.

Red Mangrove: local name «mangle», Mayan name «tap - che»: Rhizophora mangle: Family Rhizophoraceae The red mangrove can tolerate normal marine sea water, hypersaline water (seawater concentrated by evaporation) or fresh to brackish water and is known as a facultative halophyte (it can live in saline water but is not limited to it).

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.

A dry landing, then a walk to a brackish water lagoon frequented by stilts, pintail ducks, sandpipers, sanderlings and more.

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.

Cyanobacteria are found in nearly every habitat and can flourish in a wide variety of conditions, a trait that has been harnessed by Joule and enables them to use brackish or salt water as a growth medium.