Sentences with phrase «embayment of»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

«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.»

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

This paper contributes to a better understanding of the transport pathways of subglacial sediments into this embayment at present and during the last glacial period.

«The Amundsen Sea embayment is a probable site for the initiation of a future collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Is there any data on the temperature of the water in the embayment where the ice calves?

Large floating ice shelves had formed in the Ross Sea and Weddell Sea marine embayments after WAIS had collapsed in those sectors after the LGM, and I had concluded that these ice shelves, being confined and pinned at places to the sea floor, were now buttressing these sectors of WAIS, preventing further collapse.

However, upon inspecting the large map of Antarctica published by the American Geographical Society in 1970, George Denton and I noticed that one - third of the remaining WAIS were drained by two large ice streams that entered Pine Island Bay, an ice - free embayment in the Amundsen Sea sector.

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.

There is growing evidence2, 3,4 that MISI may be underway throughout the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE), which contains ice equivalent to more than a metre of global sea - level rise.

They based their findings on analysis of the chemical isotopes locked in ancient ice from the Weddell Sea embayment, and the evidence suggests that in the past, when polar waters became more stratified, the ice sheets melted much more quickly.

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.

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.

Robert D. Larter, Alastair G.C. Graham, Karsten Gohl, Gerhard Kuhn, Claus - Dieter Hillenbrand, James A. Smith, Tara J. Deen, Roy A. Livermore, Hans - Werner Schenke; Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo — ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica.

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.