Sentences with phrase «deep ground water»

Eucalyptus trees, which can grow lengthy taproots to reach deep ground water in arid areas, may stretch down 40 meters.

Not exact matches

The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

Why boil tar and drill five miles in deep water if we just poked a hole in the ground for so many decades?

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After that you must know how to angle; in what part of the water, how deep, at what time of day, for what kind of fish, in what weather; how many obstacles there are to this kind of fishing called angling, and especially what bait to use for each kind of fish in every month of the year; also how to make your baits breed, where you shall find them and how you shall keep them; and the most skilled art of all, how to make your hooks, of steel or of osmund, some to be dubbed and some for the float and the ground bait.

Susan Lorenz studied soil, sediment, ground and surface water samples, and said that although she found lead present in surface soils, it had not migrated to deeper soils or ground water.

As part of Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project, scientists and students have been measuring the salinity (salt content) of water at different depths to learn whether Phragmites distribution within the salt marsh is controlled by ground water (water deep below the ground surface that is the source of well and spring water) or interstitial salinity (water just below the ground surface from the tide).

The process involves injecting large volumes of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, deep into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas.

The simple truth is that petroleum companies go where the oil is, and, having drilled all the «shallow» water oil out of the ground, they are now going deeper.

«The moisture can descend into the ground up to 35 centimeters deep, and that's a lot of water.»

Since these gases are leaking as they are piped to the surface, rather than seeping up through the ground from deep fracking sites, improving the integrity of drill holes and pipelines could curb the problem of water pollution.

At the end of oil and gas drilling, water that was used to create small fractures in deep rock to retrieve the fuel is injected back into the ground.

These root systems are a «below ground safety net» that stores carbon and nitrogen, prevents erosion and pulls up water from deep in the soil.

If grown on dry ground, it produces an elephant - ear leaf; if grown in a pond, it puts up leaves like lily pads; and if grown in deeper water, it grows up with slender leaves like eelgrass.

Just outside the dome were tanks for water and waste, a solar - diesel hybrid generator, a lot of lava rocks and a number of distressingly deep holes in the ground.

The wind changes were found to be heaving warm currents from deeper waters up into a zone where the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable to melt and crumble from beneath — the area where towers of ice sit atop submerged ground.

In letters to Shell and Greenpeace, Gage and Gordon say that the dumping ground has a high biological diversity, often receives visits from fish that appear in Scottish markets, and experiences severe deep water storms.

If it is too deep, the garden might pond water too long and can resemble a big hole in the ground.

Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation's drinking water.

The collection wells and trenches are designed to remove contaminated ground water by drainage or active pumping and the injection wells are designed to flush the alluvial aquifer with clean water from deeper wells.

Pumped water from boreholes dug deep into the ground watered India's Green Revolution.

Thicker ice in deeper water drives increased calving, increased ice discharge, and further grounding - line recession in a positive feedback loop2, 3.

The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.

In this case, incursions of circumpolar deep water onto the continental shelf are melting the ice stream at its base and encouraging grounding line recession, which results in a positive feedback loop and further grounding line recession.

− I work mainly with inland lakes, but also with the Baltic Sea, the oceans, water located several kilometers deep in the bedrock and shallow ground water.

Ground clearance has increased, the variable ride height has a greater range, and the car can wade through deeper water — up to 33 inches.

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The well mentioned in the name is the nearby cenote, a naturally formed round, deep depression in the ground filled with water, and pretty steep walls.

It is a luxuriant portion of the second largest barrier reef in the world and is noted for its deep water conch population, and spawning ground at Rocky Point for Nassau and Yellow - fin Groupers.

The color of the water is a little bit different depending on the ground beneath it, making some areas appear deeper than others.

Cenote Ik» kil is a large and perfectly round cenote situated deep underground, with lots of long tree roots hanging from the ground level all the way down into the water and sheer rock walls on all sides.

His Low Tide, from 1976, hanging in the RA, shows heel - like shapes resting on a red ground, like body parts of abstract expressionist painters, revealed as deep waters become shallow.

Net energy gain is going down (it's more energy intensive to pump oil out of deep water than out of a ground - based well under pressure) coupled with peak oil that is either here or near in time, and global warming mandates reducing carbon emissions.

Though the morale of the environmental movement was far from upbeat in 2010 — remember, COP15 had just ended disappointingly, an energy bill had failed to gain ground in Congress, and the Deep Water Horizon drilling platform had begun leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico — there was some guarded optimism.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/AntarcticBedrock.jpg The further it retreats, the deeper the grounding line gets, and the more efficient the thermohaline pump where heavy warmer salt water dives to replace fresh meltwater at the grounding line.

They said it was «very likely» that several thousand weak to moderate earthquakes in recent years were triggered by deep - earth injection of water extracted from the ground as thousands of wells have been drilled into shale oil and gas deposits.

«Comparisons of Ice Water Path in Deep Convective Systems Among Ground - Based, GOES, and CERES - MODIS Retrievals.»

So to address the first concern, four families worked with the World Wildlife Fund to create polar - bear resistant food storage containers that can be stored above ground, rather than underground where traditional ice cellars - some more than 100 years old and upwards of 12 feet deep - are beginning to melt and fill with water.

In some parts of the coastal area, the conventional shallow and deep handpump tubewells are not successful because of very high salinity in ground water.

But in the coastal area, the salinity distributions in ground water and replenishment of water in deep and shallow aquifers are regulated by complex hydrogeolog - ical phenomena.

This can also be a borehole system usually over a 100m deep and usually two or three or more borehole probes are inserted into these wells and absorb the energy in the ground transferring it via the heat pump into the home for use in heating and domestic hot water.

Perhaps the best way to sequester carbon from the atmosphere is to bind carbon with water and put it in the deep ground — oh wait, that is petroleum — never mind.

«Deep channels under the ice allow warm water to flow all the way to the grounding line, where the ice shelf meets the bedrock,» said Michael Studinger, a researcher with the mission.

«The top of the glacier is melting away as a result of decades of steadily increasing air temperatures, while its underside is compromised by currents carrying warmer ocean water, and the glacier is now breaking away into bits and pieces and retreating into deeper ground.»

The pipes pointing the collected water into the ground would have to run rather deep to ensure the water actually hits soil and not more city infrastructure, and there would likely be maintenance involved to keep the collection system from clogging up.

Fracking means injecting water laced with sand and toxic chemicals underground to create deep ground explosions that release the gas.

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So far I have cleared the space of debris and previous plantings, added organic compost, loosened the soil and gave the ground a good deep watering.

The eldest heads off into deep water to wrestle with nature, while the youngest and I stick to the middle ground to jump in the waves.