Sentences with phrase «inland sea bed»

We travel over diverse country, including gibber plains, sand hill country and the ancient inland sea bed.

Bubbies products are made with Kosher salt that comes from a now dried, inland sea bed.

Not exact matches

Fast - flowing ice streams draining the WAIS (Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier in particular) into the Amundsen Sea have a grounding line on a reverse bed slope, becoming deeper inland.

So there you have it - a mistake that caused a huge inland sea (called a sea because the alkali bed it rests on gives it a high saline content).

The Jakobshavn is of particular importance as it has a bed below sea level for at least 80 km inland from the terminus.

Rignot: East Antarctica has marine - based sectors like West Antarctica but few of them have retrograde beds, i.e. beds that get deeper inland, so they are more immune to rapid collapse yet they remain serious concerns for sea level rise because they hold together far more ice than West Antarctica.

Since many of these glaciers sit on below sea level beds that slope downward toward the interior of Antarctica, a small amount of initial melt sets off an inland flood of these warmer waters that then produces a cascade of melt.

At issue was the fact that bottom waters were warming and that because many glaciers rested on sea beds that sloped inland, melt rates had the potential to very rapidly accelerate.)

This situation is especially risky on a retrograde bed, where bedrock gets deeper below sea level as you go inland — like a giant, gently sloping bowl.

However, Indigenous groups in many of these ecologically rich and often remote environments Indigenous peoples regard the inland waters, rivers, wetlands, sea, islands, reefs, sandbars and sea grass beds as an inseparable part of their estates.