Sentences with phrase «in shallow regions»

Postscript: Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, analyzing seabed currents and mud movement after the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, have concluded that the underwater turbulence from hurricanes could be severe enough to cause mudslides and possibly imperil pipelines on the seafloor in shallow regions of the Gulf of Mexico.

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

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In support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, BOEM is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and westIn support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, BOEM is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and westin the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and west).

In support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and westIn support of the Administration's priorities to advance domestic energy production, generate revenue, and increase job opportunities nationwide, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is moving forward with wind energy planning efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and westin the New York Bight region, which represents an area of shallow waters between Long Island (to the north and east) and the New Jersey coast (to the south and west).

Until then, try sitting on doughnut pillows, which provide cushioning while preventing direct contact to the vaginal region; sink into a sitz bath, a shallow basin that allows you to soak only your bottom; or relax for a spell in a regular bath.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

This interaction may occur anywhere in the ocean, in particular in regions where surface - gravity waves interact as they reflect from continental shelf breaks, where the deep - sea suddenly faces a much shallower shoreline.

Grey whales feed on the seafloor at depths of up to 50 metres, and rely heavily on the shallow regions in Alaska's Bering Sea for food.

Her destination is Delicado Shelter, one of some 300 shallow caves in the region known for paintings of human figures, deer, canines, felines, birds, rabbits, snakes, and other desert animals.

Focusing on two stickleback species — one that dwells in the grassy shallows of the lake bottom and another that inhabits open water — the researchers found that different parts of the fish skeleton, even those that lie close to one another, are controlled by different chromosome regions.

«This indicates that, rather than a dense region in the centre of the galaxy cluster, as predicted by the cold dark matter model, there is a much shallower central density.

«The results are consistent with existing constraints on earthquake behavior, offer an explanation for differences in structural style along the margin, and may provide clues about the propensity for shallow earthquake slip in different regions,» said co-author Demian Saffer, a Penn State University professor.

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

In some parts of the Arctic Ocean, the shallow regions near continents may be one of the settings where methane hydrates are breaking down now due to warming processes over the past 15,000 years.

In Canada, relatively shallow oil sand deposits lie beneath a 1,500 - square - mile region just north of Fort McMurray.

The scientists say their results suggest that such rotation might be beneficial in these kinds of shallow marine regions around the world, particularly for species that are in high demand.

This is similar to the bacteria found in oil reservoirs and contaminated soil, which could mean that the bacteria migrated down from shallower regions rather than evolving inside the crust, the team say (PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0015399).

The complication is that the heat content does not stay concentrated in the shallows above highly turbid regions.

The regions that exhibit cooling are mainly in the shallow equatorial areas and in some high - latitude regions.

Abstract: We identify nine young stellar objects (YSOs) in the NGC 2264 star - forming region with optical -LCB- \ em CoRoT -RCB- light curves exhibiting short - duration, shallow, periodic flux dips.

«These temperatures are particularly extreme in regions when the tidal range is large when compared to the water depth over a reef, which can cause shallow water to «pond» within reefs for extended periods of time each day,» Lowe said in a statement.

It operates offshore in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and in the onshore Gulf Coast region of the United States.

The laid - back eco-hotels in the seaside towns of Toco and Grande Riviere make a perfect home base from which to explore the area, which is also known for «river liming,» the Trinidadian tradition of de-stressing by eating, drinking, and chilling in one of the region's many shallow mountain - fed rivers.

Here you'll find several beach bars along with the best water in the region — no rocks and no waves, just clear, shallow water.

There are many dive operators who can help you explore the world beneath the waves, whether you want to see the region's wildlife, such as whale sharks, turtles, and colorful groupers, or the many shipwrecks that lie stranded in the shallow waters.

Depths on the main part of the Barrier Reef platform average 3 to 5 meters, giving most of the cayes in this region shallow access.

Shallower sites in this region feature groves of staghorn, elkhorn and brain corals, covered in schools of blue tangs, wrasse, grunts, and snappers, and harboring queen angelfish, parrotfish and spotted trunkfish.

You will then head to the coast to the lovely beach of Playa Uvas where you can do some snorkeling at one of the most active shallow coral reef sites in the region.

Once you've finished our dive - in - a-day program, you can scuba dive with us at other shallow water dive spots in the region.

The shallow reefs between Flores and the northern region however, were bombed in the past but are now recovering their former splendour.

The artist was inspired by the fact that the sedimentary rock was formed when the region was a shallow sea in Prehistoric times.

The complication is that the heat content does not stay concentrated in the shallows above highly turbid regions.

Only the shallow and potentially methane ‐ rich [Shakhova et al., 2010] shelf regions in the Laptev Sea show significant annual variations....»

When I look at the SeaWiffs data I have wide spread, shallow turbidity in the region with a concentration near the former Ivory Coast.

Ocean waters around Antarctica have warmed steadily for the past 50 years, but in addition to that, the region's shallow seas are also heating up, more quickly than others.

In shallow seas that dominated subtropical regions, warm salty water became dense enough to sink to the bottom.

This means certain sites should be avoided, in particular shallow dams in warm regions, with large variations in water level.

The regions that exhibit cooling are mainly in the shallow equatorial areas and in some high - latitude regions.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that wind turbines installed in the shallow waters of the Mid-Atlantic region could add up to nearly 300,000 megawatts of capacity — enough to power 90 million U.S. homes.

It hosts one of the shallowest offshore groundwater reservoirs globally, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 317 collected a wealth of borehole data in this region in 2009 and 2010 [Post et al., 2013].

Are trees more stressed on shallow soils than deeper soils in the region?

Two main geomorphological forms are commonly found in continuous permafrost regions of Eastern Canada: (i) small, shallow, narrow runnel ponds formed over melting ice wedges where peat slumping occurs, and (ii) more stable, slightly larger and deeper, polygonal ponds, which are naturally linked to the active layer freeze - thaw cycles, and can be colonized by aquatic plants and microbial mats (Fig. 1).

Oregon State University will generate computer models that will enable researchers to interpret modern - day releases of methane into the atmosphere — or methane fluxes - and reconstruct past episodes of methane flux in gas hydrate - bearing regions from shallow geochemical data.

Bathymetry is shaded in grey, with lighter (darker) colors indicating shallower (deeper) regions.

The computer simulations of changing conditions in vulnerable regions later this century − in a blazing landscape fed by a river delta flowing through steamy marshland, and enfolding a calm, relatively shallow 1,000 km lagoon of evaporating seawater − have delivered a stark conclusion.

While ARs are responsible for a large fraction of heavy precipitation in that region during winter, much of the rest of the orographic precipitation occurs in post-frontal clouds, which are typically quite shallow, with tops just high enough to pass the mountain barrier.

This is still very early science, and we have some estimates of what may happen to those from modelling studies, from looking at the way in which the heating of the very upper layers of the Arctic Ocean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabilise.

Our results show evidence for methane contamination of shallow drinking - water systems in at least three areas of the region and suggest important environmental risks accompanying shale - gas exploration worldwide.

A recent review of shallow cumulus in trade - wind regions, [18] a major contributor to low cloud feedback in CMIP5 models — which parameterize clouds — had this to say:

They explain the lesser warming in the East Pacific Ocean, near South America, as being due to the fact this region is kept cool by upwelling, rising of deeper colder water to shallower depths.