Sentences with phrase «coastal shelf»

But the same process of sea ice formation and brine production along coastal shelves plays a critical role wherever it occurs.

Dives begin close to shore on a narrow coastal shelf, or on nearby pinnacles.

I applied this software to satellite imagery of the NE Greenland coastal shelf to identify surface currents from moving ice.

It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Man gives misery unto man, It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Where this expansion intersects with the coastal shelf, oxygen - deprived waters are slipping up and over shelf floors, killing off creatures such as crabs, mussels and scallops.

In his appearance on a sun - dappled beach at the Assateague Island National Seashore in Virginia, Clinton outlined a new executive order that seeks to protect a bigger portion of the coastal shelf from fishing, drilling, and other activities.

This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than in the open ocean, but also because fish are much more abundant near the coastal shelf, due to coastal upwelling and the abundance of nutrients available there.

Thus the topography of the coastal shelves and depth of submerged glacier grounding points determines the impact of upwelled CDW and limits extreme basal melting to a relatively few locations as illustrated by the red and orange areas in the figure below (from Depoorter 2013)..