Sentences with phrase «by large bodies of water»

During the Triassic, the world's continents were locked together in a single supercontinent called Pangaea, allowing animals to roam unimpeded by large bodies of water.

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Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activiWater pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activiwater bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activities.

Indeed, a study in 2006 suggested that Mars may have gone through an acidic phase, triggered by active volcanism, after an early period in which it had a denser atmosphere and large bodies of neutral - pH water on its surface.

The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, suggest that the ecological consequences of some of the world's 36,000 dams may be felt by large water bodies rather than simply the dammed rivers themselves and the surrounding lands.

Maximum sea depth between the mainland and islands was a secondary driver of body size, with treeshrews on islands separated from the mainland by deeper waters typically exhibiting larger body size, the researchers said.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

I have a further query about potassium - my reading indicates that potassium can be absorbed by the body from most «potassium salts» so I have been testing «Cream of Tartar» - I add a 5 gram sachet to a large glass of cold water - which gives it a very slight sour taste (not unpleasant at all)- you need to stir it, as the «salt» does not really dissolve.

Kennedy Lake is the largest body of fresh water on Vancouver Island and is surrounded by steep mountains on the north eastern side and low lying land on the west side.

Last year GTA benefited from increasing interest in Sun Moon Lake — Taiwan's largest natural body of fresh water with a cycling trail dubbed «one of the most beautiful in the world» by CNN — and Kenting, on Taiwan's tropical southernmost tip, home to fossilised coral cliffs, living reefs and diverse marine life and migratory birds.

Nadia Botello (Philadelphia, PA) installs a large, interactive sound installation inspired by how sound passes through bodies of water.

For her first solo show at Gavin Brown — and her largest in New York to date — the artist will present three impressive bodies of work, including her Braddock - based series «The Notion of Family,» as well as two newer compilations probing the Flint water crisis and the artist's own pilgrimage to Joshua Tree, California, to see a remarkable outdoor desert art museum founded by 20th century African - American sculptor, Noah Purifoy.

Reflected in its title, this exhibition is inspired by the Italian word displuvio, which describes the geographic line of the mountain range that divides condensation and rain, guiding it in that manner towards larger bodies of water.

From which this came: «Once these glacial rivers pour out into the larger body of water, they're picked up by ocean currents, moving east to west, and begin to circulate there.

In the case of water surfaces, the transfer is by convection and may consequently be affected by the horizontal transport of heat within large bodies of water.

It would cross over a thousand bodies of water including the Missouri, Yellowstone rivers and straight through one of America's largest aquifers — the Ogallala — which supplies 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the U.S. Over 500,000 people are directly employed in the agricultural sector in the states traversed by the pipeline — a sector that generates billions of dollars.

With possible exceptions for locations that are dominated by significant, more - or-less thermally stable, bodies of liquid or solid water; primarily near the oceans but including also other large bodies of liquid or solid water.

As you'll be well aware, surface air temperatures can easily change by 10 C within a day, for large bodies of ice to melt, or sea water to warm would take centuries.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.