Sentences with word «embayment»

The Smith, Pope and Kohler glaciers flow into the Dotson and Crosson ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea embayment in West Antarctica, the part of the continent with the largest decline in ice.

Utilizing 22 years of data collected by a network of citizen scientists, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their colleagues at the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program, the Buzzards Bay Coalition, and the Marine Biological Laboratory found that average summertime temperatures in embayments throughout Buzzards Bay warmed by almost 2 degrees Celsius — roughly 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Scambos TA, Bohlander JA, Shuman CA, Skvarca P. Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica.

This suggests that Serenichthys was using a shallow, waterweed - filled embayment of the estuary as a nursery, as many fish do today,» says Gess.

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Ice shelf - A floating slab of ice of considerable thickness extending from the coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a level or gently sloping surface), often filling embayments in the coastline of the ice sheets.

The shelf has three parts, called Larsen A, B, and C, in separate embayments along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Magnani and another team of scientists collected seismic reflection data used for this research during a 2008 - 2011 project in the northern Mississippi embayment, home to the New Madrid seismic zone.

These included embayments, cliffs, and other features that often appear along seashores on Earth.

An example of this would be the ice stream that extended out of the Larsen A embayment on the Antarctic Peninsula [47].

a switch from grounded ice, or ice shelves, to open waters in the Ross embayment when planetary temperatures were up to approx 3 °C warmer than today and atmospheric CO2 concentration was as high as approx 400 p.p.m.v.»

It is currently shown to be in very low ice concentration in a large embayment formed in the central arctic ice pack.

Even as Rignot and colleagues suggest that loss of the Amundsen Sea embayment glaciers appears inevitable, it remains extremely difficult to predict exactly how this ice loss will unfold and how long it will take.

Other major embayments include Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, the Columbia River Estuary, and San Francisco Bay, including the estuaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.

The deposition of evaporites (salts) was periodically set in motion as a result of reduced ocean circulation occurring in geographically restricted places such as shallow embayments.

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

But scientists» studies of the rift also illuminate how far glaciology has come since the collapse of the ice shelf's northern siblings: Larsen A in 1995 and Larsen B in 2002, which occupied separate embayments further out along the peninsula.

Computer simulations revealed that the mechanical effect on the earth crust resulting from a large lateral collapse, can promote the deflection of deep magmatic intrusions, favouring the formation of a new eruptive centre within the collapse embayment.

First, researchers looked at which locations and sites had the most consistent data over the 22 - year period (from 1992 to 2012), and then divided those into 17 distinct embayments (see accompanying map for sites).

We infer that the previously unstudied WAP embayments are important foraging areas for whales during autumn and, furthermore, that meso - scale variation in the distribution of whales and their prey are important features of this system.

There are many ice shelves but the biggest (about the size of France) is the Ross Ice Shelf, tucked into a deep embayment in West Antarctica.

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Morro Bay is a natural embayment with an artificial harbor constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Melting is accelerating at the Amundsen embayment across the Antarctic Peninsula from the Weddell Sea.

Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica.

The pace and magnitude of the changes observed in this region match the expectation that Amundsen Sea embayment glaciers should be less stable than others.

«The coastline is made up of small coastal embayments, and each one has has a distinct watershed,» said Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researcher Jennie Rheuban, who helped analyze the volunteers» water quality measurements.

The post-2008 seismicity has occurred both in areas that were seismically active before 2008 (for example, the Mississippi embayment) and in regions with no pre-2008 historical or instrumental seismicity (for example, FWB).

0732917 McCormick, M. LARISSA: Impact of ice - shelf loss on geochemical profiles and microbial community composition in marine sediments of the Larsen A embayment, Antarctic Peninsula

Reconstructions of redox changes in the ocean during the PETM have shown that deoxygenation in its most extreme forms - anoxia and euxinia - were largely restricted to the Arctic Ocean, Peri-Tethys Ocean, and some shallow marine embayments.

It indeed appears that the August 2016 storms helped to break up the ice and spread it out, contributing to the development of several large embayments and polynyas.

«We analyzed the data on an embayment by embayment scale,» Rheuban said.

«The degree of pollution in each embayment is very different and that has to do with a number of different factors — levels of development, whether there's agriculture or urbanization nearby.»

The Smith, Pope and Kohler glaciers flow into the Dotson and Crosson ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea embayment in West Antarctica, the part of the continent with the largest loss of ice mass.

In Antarctica, dynamic thinning has accelerated at the grounding lines of the major glaciers of the Amundsen Sea embayment, and in places has penetrated to within 100 km of the ice divides.

On the glacier scale, thinning is strongest in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE), where it is confirmed as being localized on the fast - flowing glaciers and their tributaries (Fig. 3 [below].

The new analysis found that algae populations continued to grow in some embayments even as nitrogen levels stopped increasing.

We undertook a multi-disciplinary study to elucidate the ecological relationships between krill and baleen whales relative to oceanographic processes in the embayments of the Antarctic Peninsula at the onset of winter.

Late Pleistocene interglacials were characterised by ice shelves in the Larsen embayment.

It flows, together with Thwaites Ice Stream, into the Amundsen Sea embayment in West Antarctica, and the two ice streams together drain ~ 5 % of the Antarctic Ice Sheet1.

The Larsen Ice Shelf, for example, is formed in an embayment.