Sentences with phrase «giving its surface waters»

During the flood, this subterranean water mixed with Earth's surface water, giving our surface water different isotope characteristics from water in comets, asteroids, and meteoroids.

Not exact matches

Newton maintains that the deformation in the shape of the surface of the water must be due to forces that give rise to accelerated motion relative to absolute space.

If you sprinkle the bagels with seeds right after releasing them from the water, their surface is still pretty sticky and you shouldn't have any problems, but you can always brush them with a little beaten egg yolk (will give the bagels a little yellowish color after baking) or egg white to enhance the stickiness.

The Tubby Table is an educational bath play surface for toddlers that suctions in the middle of the tub, giving kids a sturdy and safe surface while keeping water and toys inside the tub.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney and state Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker were in Newburgh today, giving an update on the PFOS drinking water contamination that surfaced some 10 months ago.

As the sun evaporates water from the comet's surface, ultraviolet light could strip an electron from the water, giving it a positive charge.

Those sites gave her the chance to gather fossils from many different depths in the ancient ocean, from the more oxygen - rich surface waters to deeper zones.

About 120,000 miles beneath the surface, the radiative zone gives way to a much more turbulent convective zone that is constantly churning like a pot of boiling water.

For her, merely putting the surface and ground water connection on the record is significant, given the state's history and the interests at play.

If the planet is only one Earth mass, Jenkins says, any life there might be near its end; the world would be on the verge of a runaway greenhouse effect, with gravity too weak to prevent its life - giving water from boiling off into space due to rising surface temperatures.

Their results suggest a drop of as much as 10 degrees for fresh water during the warm season and 6 degrees for the atmosphere in the North Atlantic, giving further evidence that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked.

«As surface water sources became more scarce during a given climate cycle, the only species to survive may have been those with adaptations for sufficient mobility to discover a new and more persistent groundwater source, or those already settled within home range of such a resource,» co-author Professor Gail Ashley, Rutgers University (US), said.

Smaller, dispersed droplets are less threatening for two reasons: they present more surface area to the water, so ocean bacteria can degrade the oil faster; plus, the small droplets are much slower to rise to the surface, keeping the oil at sea instead of in coastal wetlands and giving the bacteria more time to do their magic.

Dr Paolo Cipollini from NOC explained: «When a satellite altimeter overpasses the area affected by a surge, it gives us a unique profile of the water surface level from offshore to the coast, as well as concurrent measurements of wave height.

In the search for other Earths, the main goal is to find a planet the same size as ours that sits in the habitable zone — the region around a given star where planetary surface temperature would be similar to ours, allowing liquid water to exist.

These motions are governed by water's surface tension, the force that gives a drop of water its shape.

They dive from the surface, though many species make a characteristic half - jump as they dive, presumably to give themselves a more streamlined entry into the water.

Four of these new planets are less than 2.5 times the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's habitable zone, defined as the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet may be suitable for life - giving liquid water.

Ice that thick effectively seals off the surface — and its potentially life - giving chemicals — from the water below.

This makes sense given that water droplets bead up rather than spread out over repellent surfaces, said Nebraska co-author Xiao Cheng Zeng.

«If all of the Earth's water is on the surface, that gives us one interpretation of the water cycle, where we can think of water cycling from oceans into the atmosphere and into the groundwater over millions of years,» she said.

Star A's late spectral type and dim luminosity puts it possibly close to the lower limit of habitability for (multicellular) Earth - type plant and animal life, given the redness of its light and the increased risk of tidal locking from the closeness of the orbit necessary for liquid water on a planetary surface.

They've given scientists a clear view of some of the processes that have sculpted the Martian surface, including evidence that water shaped much of the entire region where the crater is found.

This gives us better insight into the distribution of how much methane (CH4), nitrogen (N2), carbon monoxide (CO), and water (H2O) is on Pluto's surface.

Again, Monckton must surely know full well that for the last 25 - 30 years satellite temperature measurement of sea and land surface have replaced terrestrial temperature station measurements in many cases since these give a much greater coverage (70 % of the surface of the Earth is water... it's difficult to put weather stations on top of ice sheets etc.!)

I've been experimenting with T10 dextran coated iron oxide nanoparticles, obviously not the same as fullerenes, but still a very interesting tool, I've been testing if the coating is giving the particle antioxidant abilities because of it's the (basically) indigestable sugar chains (glucose) creating a high surface area which are largely made from hydroxyl groups, I hypothesised this act's as a «sink» for reactive oxygen species converting them to water.

If the ridge did indeed poke above the surface of the water at one time, it would have given the turtles — and countless other species — the ability to island - hop all the way from ancient Russia to Canada.

A co-author of a paper published Jan. 11 in the journal Science noted that future explorers can probably use the ice as a source of water, given the ice is only one to two meters (3.3 to 6.5 feet) below the surface.

I started by giving it a wipe down and sanding the top, then re-stained the top surface with Early American and three coats of non-yellowing water - based poly.

«Koi», a mirror Image of carp on the surface of the water, repeated and bought to life with colour filters to give a playful and exotic print.

When you have everything in its place bring the entire container over to the sink and give it a good drink of water — consider whether your vessel has drainage holes and if you need to protect the table surface as well as how much water the bulbs will rest in.

As The Shape of Water nears its release date, a new red band trailer for the film has surfaced, giving us another look at the beautiful, hypnotic world del Toro has created.

In an ideal world the surface would be laid totally flat, but consideration must be given to dealing with the surface water drainage, thus all surfaces tend to be laid with some degree of fall towards the drainage outlet.

The Base Flood Elevation, or BFE shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for high - risk flood zones indicates the water surface elevation resulting from a flood that has a one percent chance of equaling or exceeding that level in any given year.

Water companies should give rebates to those whose surface rainwater goes into a soakaway or straight into a river or canal, rather than mains sewers.

Dogs haven't taken to texting yet (give them time), but they use their dewclaws to grasp and manipulate items such as bones and toys, grip ice or other surfaces to pull themselves out of water, and gently scratch an itchy eye.

Movement, such as running from a faucet, breaks the water surface tension and draws in health giving oxygen.

In certain areas of the Geopark much of the surface limestone has been water worn giving it a rugged, rocky appearance; a landscape that is often referred to as limestone pavement.

The beach itself is great to walk on... a nice sandy strip for about a quarter mile, but difficult for swimming and paddle boarding given the rocky surface below the water line.

Several natural breaks exist in the Buck Island reef, allowing you to swim into coral gardens where the most fish tend to congregate (beware that elkhorn coral grows nearly to the surface of the water: trying to swim over it will give you some nasty cuts and an unsympathetic scolding from the tour operators who previously warned you).

Because condensation forms on the inner surface of the mask, thus clouding the mask, you will be given a «de-fog» solution to use on the mask prior to diving into water.

Your Great Barrier Reef tour from Cairns gives you the option to choose a full day reef trip or a half day helicopter and boat cruise to see the magnificent Great Barrier Reef from above and below the water's surface.

In the waters off Coron lie the submerged wrecks of Japanese ships, some dating back to World War two, giving you an insight into the turbulent history of the Philippines, lying dormant beneath the surface.

A high percentage of diver accidents happen at the surface, and even when things go wrong underwater, the victim has to taken to the surface and then removed from the water before full medical assistance can be given.

Track surface textures and water effects are also a considerable step forward, all aiding that immersion, with bumps and surface changes giving a profound effect on the newly revised handling model.

In another an Olympic swimmer, cauled in the surface tension of the pool's water, is being forced to play the recorder — a cheap, plastic version of the flute, often given to middle schoolers as an introduction to sheet music.

I guess that I don't have to give the long list of examples where water vapor and / or cold air cools hot surfaces.

A given chunk of water moves because of the net forces on it, and so a net northward transfer of water not driven by friction must require that the average isobar surfaces slope downwards in the shallow ocean as you go north.

At 4000 m beneath surface pressure is roughly 400 atmospheres, which is enough to force water to be in its state of maximal density, hence a fixed given temperature.

Atmospheric CO2 absorbed by the oceans» surface water produces carbonic acid, the same acid that gives soft drinks their fizz, making certain carbonate minerals dissolve more readily in seawater.