Sentences with phrase «dry lakes into»

Mesquite bushes have migrated out from dry streambeds and the edges of dry lakes into the valley floor and flatlands.

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By dusk he is nine miles into the back - country and exhausted from walking, and after a plunge into an icy lake and a dinner of freeze - dried macaroni laced with chili sauce and hot coffee, Walton unrolls himself by the campfire.

He recalled that a research conducted by a professor in a London university and published over three decades ago had predicted that unless one or some of the rivers from the Central African region are diverted to empty into the Lake Chad basin, the river would dry up.

But critics say the channel will cut across the Bibi river, threatening to cut off most of the water that feeds into the lake, which could cause the lake to dry up entirely.

Due to shrinkage of its connection with the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea was transformed into a giant saline lake that was partially evaporated by the dry climate of the region, six million years ago.

Ancient Aztecs used to skim spirulina algae off the surface of lakes and dry it into cakes which serves as an important source of nutrients.

-- Gerald D. (Salt Lake City, USA) «I like a historical book that goes into great detail without being dry or cumbersome.

The salt flats are a dried lake of salt which when combined with seasonal rainfall, transform into a pristine liquid mirror!

The country is relatively dry, and we pass few signs of habitation along our route until we cross a 4,528 metre / 14,852 ft pass and descend into the basin of Lake Titicaca.

Its 400,000 acres are home to eight distinct ecosystems — moving from the mangrove, wallum, and banksia forests of the west and into the subtropical rainforest of the interior, skirting clear dune lakes and bouncing through «wet» and «dry» eucalyptus forests, before finally emerging on the wind - lashed coastal dunes of the expansive eastern beach, is literally a trip through time.

Artists seem drawn to the dry lakebed, where in 1968 Michael Heizer dug a zigzag trench called «Rift 1» into the surface, one of nine depressions he made in dry lakes throughout Nevada to create a 520 - mile earthwork.

An extension of Benedict's ongoing investigation into processes of research, collection, extraction and cultivation, this solo exhibition will feature a 4 - channel video installation depicting Benedict's repeated attempts to collect a core sample from the arid, clay - hardened surface of Harper Dry Lake located in Hinkley, CA.

And six years later, Michael Heizer created one of his first earth works here, a zigzag trench incised like an abstract painting into the surface of a dry lake bed.

Meanwhile, glacial retreat means that less water melts and flows into streams and lakes during these hot, dry periods.

1] bigger and bigger» dry heat» produced in sub-Sahara (lake Chad is getting dry)- > extra dry air goes west into north Atlantic and destroys the» raw material» for renewal of that ice.

China's massive Three Gorges Dam, which has already displaced more than 1 million people, may have claimed a new victim: Environmental researchers say it has helped turn the country's largest freshwater lake into a dried - out plain.

sea rising is a natural phenomena — sediments washed from the hills into the - # b] places like lake Chad, Aral sea getting dry = less water on the land = more water into the sea.

In the long run, the excess algal growth can have devastating impacts on the health and age of a fresh water lake or river, causing eutrophication to speed up, where lakes and other water bodies fill in with dead algae and other organic matter and eventually turn into dry land.