Sentences with phrase «flow of salty water»

Then, in 2013, Union Pacific closed off the railway culverts for repair, sealing off the flow of salty water from the north arm to the south arm.

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The results were encouraging: The new «sea water» formed a layer on top of the even saltier Dead Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging it.

The heavier salty water flowing into the main basin has partially replaced the old eutrophic and anoxic water, which has in turn moved towards the mouth of the Gulf of Finland.

The impact of the salty, oxygen - rich water that flowed into the Baltic Sea main basin (Baltic Proper) in December 2014 via the Danish straits was still visible in August up to the deep basins east of Gotland.

Beneath it lies another layer of rock full of ancient, salty water, and the change in water flow is allowing that to seep into the fresh water above.

With its higher - than - a-bird's - eye view of the Red Planet's surface, it found the strongest evidence yet that salty water currently flows on Mars.

Too much of the polar water, which is also less salty, and the Gulf Stream could be displaced to the south, removing the flow of water that currently warms England and Northern Europe....

That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»

In today's ocean, warm, salty surface water from the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the equatorial Atlantic flows northward in the Gulf Stream.

This circumpolar deep water, which is relatively warm and salty compared to other parts of the Southern Ocean, has warmed and shoaled in recent decades, and can melt ice at the base of glaciers which reduces friction and allows them to flow more freely.

That creates a return flow of warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica, where it's eroding ice shelves from beneath.»

The salty bottom water flows west and out the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation A major current in the Atlantic Ocean, characterized by a northward flow of warm, salty water in the upper layers of the Atlantic, and a southward flow of colder water in the deep Atlantic.

Of the 8.5 Sv of warm, salty Atlantic water that passes north across the Greenland ‐ Scotland Ridge annually, about 4.0 ± 2.5 Sv passes into the Barents Sea either directly to the north of Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floOf the 8.5 Sv of warm, salty Atlantic water that passes north across the Greenland ‐ Scotland Ridge annually, about 4.0 ± 2.5 Sv passes into the Barents Sea either directly to the north of Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floof warm, salty Atlantic water that passes north across the Greenland ‐ Scotland Ridge annually, about 4.0 ± 2.5 Sv passes into the Barents Sea either directly to the north of Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floof Norway as a barotropic flow, or along the western coast of Spitzbergen as a baroclinic floof Spitzbergen as a baroclinic flow.

The AMOC is a flow of warm, salty water that starts in the tropics and runs northward into the high latitudes, where the air is much colder and extracts heat from it.

While a surge in heavy, salty water can invigorate deep water circulation, a dilution of the waters prompts a more lethargic flow.

They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the ocean.

In today's ocean, warm, salty surface water from the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the equatorial Atlantic flows northward in the Gulf Stream.

Inspired by an early name for the Hudson River, the Muhheakantuck, or «river that flows two ways» — or, as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation puts it, a «tidal estuary, an arm of the sea where salty sea water meets fresh water running off the land» — members of the Architecture Research Office and dlandstudio proposed using both porous streets that can filter water and extending the lower part of the island to create a new Lower Manhattan that is part «twenty - first - century business district,» part «center of regional ecological renewal»: