Sentences with phrase «coastal margin»

When these dinosaurs were alive, the Arabian landmass was largely underwater and formed the north - western coastal margin of the African continent.

At the time, these hydrocarbon - rich areas were marine coastal margins, where the productivity of marine algae was generally high and sedimentary rocks were thickly deposited.

The small, coastal margin communities were abandoned and activity was consolidated at the Marco Gonzalez site and, perhaps, the Basil Jones site.

The shift to a farming economy at Basil Jones on the interior of the island at the same time coastal margin sites, such as Chac Balam and San Juan, are abandoned may have occurred because of this «horizontal integration» of the coastal trade system by the Putun Maya.

«Modelling has been used to help develop forecasting systems to predict flood risk around the shallower southern regions of the North Sea, where the coastal margin is low - lying and population density is high.

We conduct science on the coastal margin of the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

Our specific research axes then are set by the geography of the coastal margin.

We recognize that atmospheric and Pacific Ocean conditions from beyond our geographical scope influence the coastal margin.

The Hakai Institute conducts long - term scientific research at remote locations on the coastal margin of British Columbia, Canada.

Ile great surprise was that the coastal margins of Ambergris were largely abandoned by 1000 A.D..

It is very possible that the close ceramic affinities between Marco Gonzales and Lamanai are associated with the community's apparent independence from the factors that influenced the abandonment of the coastal margin of the northern part of the island (Pendergast 1990).

By the Late Classic period, the coastal margins of the island had become heavily settled.

These changes include melting and thinning of the coastal margins (30) and surging of outlet glaciers (29, 31), which may be contributed to by the intrusion of warming ocean waters (32).

These alongshore stresses act in concert with the Coriolis force to drive offshore oceanic (Ekman) transport that in turn pumps deep, cold water up to the coastal margins.