Sentences with phrase «continental shelf areas»

Today the Department of Interior announced a streamline policy of approval for offshore wind power in outer continental shelf areas off New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.

We worked mostly on the shallow continental shelf areas where water depths vary between 50 and 500 meters.

Relationship to Cap & Trade Assume, for the sake of discussion that, outside of a few outer continental shelf areas near the USA, Canada's tar sands are the only economically useful major new reserves accessible to publicly traded oil companies.

Today, the South Georgia archipelago represents one of the largest, most isolated land masses and continental shelf areas in the Southern Ocean.

In the autumn adult krill migrate from offshore and continental shelf areas to inshore habitats where they remain through winter under the protective cover of sea ice [4].

This month alone, more than 20 countries have submitted claims for continental shelf areas stretching beyond their 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones.

The project, headed by NEFSC, will utilize existing archival acoustic data from recorders previously deployed along the western North Atlantic continental shelf area.

On 6 December, Canada filed a submission to define the outer limits of its expanded continental shelf area in the Atlantic Ocean with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf....

Not exact matches

More than 90 % of the continental shelf would be available for drilling rights and only one out of 26 planning areas across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico would be entirely off limits to oil drilling under the Trump Administration's plan.

«If protective ice shelves were suddenly lost in the vast areas around the Antarctic margin where reverse - sloping bedrock (where the bed on which the ice sheet sits deepens toward the continental interior, rather than toward the ocean) is more than 1,000 meters deep, exposed grounding line ice cliffs would quickly succumb to structural failure as is happening in the few places where such conditions exist today,» the researchers point out.

And diplomats from Arctic nations are now even discussing the possibility of a joint Russian - Canadian - Danish submission to the United Nations» continental shelf commission, suggesting an orderly division of the area.

Altogether, researchers analysed data covering a 94,000 - square - kilometre arc (an area about the size of Indiana or Hungary) that includes the edge of the continental shelf and the steep slope just seaward of it, says co-author Adam Skarke, a geologist at Mississippi State University in Starkville.

The scientists detailed their best effort to come up with estimates of carbon cycling in three subsets of coastal areas: those dominated by river outlets, others consisting of filtering estuaries and bays, and the continental shelf — any coastal water reaching a depth of about 200 meters or fewer.

This increased the area of continental shelf, produced shallow seas, thereby also expanding the diversity of environmental niches in which animals could specialize and speciate.

Possible mechanisms include (iv) fertilization of phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean by increased deposition of iron - containing dust from the atmosphere after being carried by winds from colder, drier continental areas, and a subsequent redistribution of limiting nutrients; (v) an increase in the whole ocean nutrient content (e.g., through input of material exposed on shelves or nitrogen fixation); and (vi) an increase in the ratio between carbon and other nutrients assimilated in organic material, resulting in a higher carbon export per unit of limiting nutrient exported.

Spanning both the deep - seabed area and continental shelves within national jurisdiction, the deep sea is the most difficult area on Earth to access and one of the hardest to manage.

Shakhova et al (2010) reports that the continental shelf of East Central Siberia (ECS), with an area of over 2 million km2, is emitting more methane than all other ocean sources combined.

In Antarctica, even though as a whole it's slightly gaining in sea ice cover, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

This map shows the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing areas, with the Chukchi and Beaufort seas highlighted.

Climate forcing in the LGM equilibrium state, relative to the Holocene, due to the slow feedback ice age surface properties, i.e., increased ice area, different vegetation distribution, and continental shelf exposure, was -3.5 ± 1 W / m2 (10).

This area of Indonesia is where the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean meets, or more to the point it is near two continental shelves.

The apartment includes: Built in barbecue and outdoor setting Queen double and two single beds (which can be converted to king double) and a wall bunk: Full size kitchen with microwave and stove: Large outdoor covered area: Undercover parking: Gas space heating: Colour television and video recorder: Continental style breakfast pack: Automatic washing machine: Radio / cassette / CD player: All towels & linen: Hair dryer: Vanity shelf and light to master bedroom.

The apartment includes: Built in barbecue and outdoor setting Queen double and two single beds (which can be converted to king double) and a wall bunk: Full size kitchen with microwave and stove: Large outdoor covered area: Undercover parking: Gas space heating: Colour television and video recorder: Continental style breakfast pack: Automatic washing machine: Radio / cassette / compact disc player: All towels & linen: Hair dryer: Vanity shelf and light to master bedroom.

With the continental shelf only a short distance offshore, the Ningaloo area offers many opportunities for game, reef and beach fishing.

Hammerhead sharks are very peculiar about the areas of the ocean that attract them, but the edge of the continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean where it meets near Placencia attracts large schools of hammerheads.

The Siberian continental shelf is huge, comprising about 20 % of the global area of continental shelf.

«Nobody knows how many more such areas exist on the extensive East Siberian continental shelves.

The directive focuses on seven broad areas of Arctic policy: 1) National security and homeland security, 2) International governance, 3) Extended continental shelf and boundary issues, 4) Promotion of international scientific cooperation, 5) Maritime transportation, 6) Economic issues, including energy resources, and 7) Environmental protection and conservation of natural resources.

There are more than 400 known dead zones worldwide, covering about 1 percent of the area of the continental shelves.

Shakhova et al (2010) reports that the continental shelf of East Central Siberia (ECS), with an area of over 2 million km2, is emitting more methane than all other ocean sources combined.

Throughout, the areas of continental shelf extend beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baselines of Canada and, on the Alpha and Lomonosov Ridges, beyond the 350 nautical mile constraint.

The call area includes 222 whole blocs and 172 partial blocs on the outer continental shelf.

If «average ocean depth» is based on its volume and the area covered at the surface including continental shelves then if it's 4,267 metres then above 700 m and above 2,000 m can not possibly in any practical way be more than 16.4 % and 46.9 % respectively (they can be less).

More than 43 percent of Earth's currently ice - free lands have been changed into farms, rangelands, cities, factories, and roads (Barnosky et al., 2012; Foley et al., 2011; Vitousek et al., 1986, 1997), and in the oceans many continental - shelf areas have been transformed by bottom trawling (Halpern et al., 2008; Jackson, 2008; Hoekstra et al., 2010).

The pink areas of this map are the outer continental shelves on which methane hydrates can be found.

In February 2009, the SAFMC established eight no - bottom - fishing zones on the outer continental shelf between southern North Carolina and the Florida Keys ranging in area from 27 to 514 km2.

«Scientific investigations in the Gulf of Mexico have documented a large area of the Louisiana continental shelf with seasonally - depleted oxygen levels (< 2mg / l).

Data from modern ice stream beds are difficult to obtain, but where ice advanced onto continental shelves during glacial periods, extensive areas of the former bed can be imaged using modern swath sonar tools.

His 50 - year career in international law and diplomacy has spanned a wide and varied field, including settlement of disputes; the law of treaties; State responsibility; diplomatic and State immunity; maritime delimitation; the law of the Continental shelf; outer space and nuclear energy; the law of international organisations; the UN Security Council; the laws of war and neutrality; international criminal tribunals; and numerous other areas.