Sentences with phrase «hold vast oceans»

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Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

Surf classes are held daily conducted by advanced surfers who have vast experience in instructing, ocean safety and wave riding.

This squares with the reality that the oceans hold the vast majority of the Earth's carbon, and when the oceans warm, they release some of their gases into the atmosphere.

A section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov.

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/43/18045.full About a decade ago, Canfield (1) offered a very different possibility — that ventilation of the deep ocean lagged behind the GOE by more than a billion years, resulting in a vast, deep reservoir of hydrogen sulfide, but long - held presumptions about photosynthetic life in the surface waters remained untouched.