Sentences with phrase «found in salty water»

Not exact matches

The crew found the three new species of Loricifera (jellyfish - like animals less than a millimeter long) in the sediment of L'Atalante Basin, a zone of salty, oxygen - depleted water at the bottom of the Mediterranean.

Other fossilized animals found at the same site as I. panamensis were marine species, indicating that unlike river dolphins living today, I. panamensis lived in the salty waters of a food - rich Caribbean Sea, before the full closure of the Panama Isthmus.

The study also found that the warming of the upper 300 meters (roughly 1,000 feet) of the Northwest Atlantic increases salinity due to a change in water mass distribution related to a retreat of the colder, fresher Labrador Current and a northerly shift of the warmer, saltier Gulf Stream.

Lowest readings of dissolved oxygen were found in late summers, as is the case in other estuaries along the Oregon coast, when incoming salty seawater settles longer in the estuary and warmer, drier conditions reduce the amount of fresh water from the Coos River.

«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»

2018-04-07 13:49 Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

However, this logic can lead you astray — brine shrimp, the single most common frozen fish food, is found in water too salty to support any fish, yet it is almost the perfect food for a vast majority of small tropical species.

The artists found shared ground in the form of feminist philosophy and fantastical storytelling for their shared 2007 installation «Salty Water / What of Salty Water,» at Portikus in Frankfurt, which saw the artists constructing a surreal tale of non-narrative nautical adventure.

As mentioned above, highest surface densities in the world ocean are reached where water is very cold, while lower densities are found in the saltier but warmer tropical and subtropical areas.

Changes in greenhouse gas concentrations may account for about half of the simulated tropical cooling (Shin et al., 2003), and for the production of colder and saltier water found at depth in the Southern Ocean (Liu et al., 2005).

«Salt plays a far more important role that we first thought,» says Rainer Zahn, a palaeoclimatologist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.Zahn and his colleagues found that a build up of salty water off the coast of South Africa could jump start ocean circulation in the North Atlantic (this despite the two regions being thousands of kilometers apart) while a reduction in the South African waters» saltiness could cause the opposite effect.

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.

«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»

Instead, she found that the key AMO features she identified are linked with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a major current in which warm, salty water flows northward in the upper Atlantic while colder water flows southward at greater depths.