Sentences with phrase «coastal sediments from»

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Between 2012 and 2014, Baranes and Woodruff collected sediment cores from lakes, looking for marine sand layers washed onshore by past extreme coastal floods.

A climatologist says an embattled report recommending that the state prepare for a one - meter rise by 2100 is a reasonable based an sediment samples from 10 coastal wetlands

And the conundrum for coastal engineers is that sediment can only come in large quantities from the processes of erosion — especially from fast - eroding cliff faces.

Warming and the seas — both on the rise Those ancient samples of sediment from 10 coastal wetlands in North Carolina provide some of the best evidence that sea - level rise closely follows warmer temperatures, Rahmstorf says.

Professor Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter said: «Carbon storage in sediments in these rivers and coastal regions could present a more secure environment than carbon stored in soil on land.

Fellow Melissa Garren from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California - San Diego collects sediment samples beneath coastal milkfish (Chanos chanos) farms in Bolinao, Republic of the Philippines.

Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.

Jorgenson, M.T., and J. Brown, 2005: Classification of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast and estimation of carbon and sediment inputs from coastal erosion.

Linking RPO results from riverine and coastal marine sediments will enhance our understanding of what material survives transport from the terrestrial environment to the ocean.

In addition, stronger storms may also lead to greater coral damage due to increased flooding events, associated terrestrial runoff of freshwater and dissolved nutrients from coastal watersheds, and changes in sediment transport (leading to smothering of corals).

Magnetite production and transformation in the methanogenic consortia from coastal riverine sediments — Shiling Zheng — Journal of Microbiology

In their study of sediments from the Black Sea, Eckert et al. (2013, p. 431 in this issue of Geology), make this step by providing, for the first time, a basin - wide reconstruction of the evolution of the chemocline in this silled coastal basin over the Holocene.

David, I havent been keeping up with all the PETM research, but I do recall that individual plankton recovered from Bass River, New Jersey show a single step CIE. Due to the high sedimentation rate of coastal fluvial systems, Bass River sediments are consistent with a much shorter duration of organic carbon release during the PETM (estimated as less than 500 years).

Mappings of the geochemistry and magnetic susceptibility of detrital sources in the watershed of the lagoon and from the coastal barriers were undertaken in order to track the terrestrial or coastal / marine origin of sediments deposited into the lagoon.

Detailed impacts, however, will vary strongly from region to region and coast to coast and therefore can not be easily generalized, as changing mean and extreme coastal water levels depend on a combination of near shore and offshore processes, related to climatic but also non-climatic anthropogenic factors, such as natural land movement arising from tectonics, volcanism or compaction; land subsidence due to anthropogenic extraction of underground resources; and changes in coastal morphology resulting from sediment transport induced by natural and / or anthropogenic factors.

Barrier islands like the one's that stretch along the coast of Georgia are formed from deposition of sediments coming from Georgia's rivers, and sand being deposited along the coastal side of the island by the longshore drift.

Retelle, M.J., Bradley, R.S. and Stuckenrath, R., 1989: Relative sea - level chronology determined from raised marine sediments and coastal isolation basins, northeastern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada.

What kind of emphasis should be put on trying to re-naturalize river systems and coastal areas, i.e. building wetlands, removing dams that prevent sediment from reaching barrier islands etc., and could this practice actually be better for coastal areas as opposed to hard infrastructure?

The coastal region is also influenced by river sediments from the Yukon and other Alaska rivers.