Sentences with phrase «interior of the continent»

Laying HVDC, natural gas and fiber optic infrastructure from Port Augusta / Olympic Dam to Port Hedland would open up the vast interior of the continent to development of solar and geothermal.

Some of his followers, who were called al - Murabitin, invaded Morocco and established the State of al - Murabitin; another group of his followers penetrated the interior of the continent and captured the Kingdom of Ghana, between the Senegal and the Niger, whose people embraced Islam.

Today, as the global climate continues to warm, rapid and sustained retreat may be close to happening again, and could trigger runaway ice retreat into the interior of the continent, which in turn would cause sea levels to rise even faster than currently projected.

In turn, those animals» own waste — and eventually decomposing bodies — helped spread the nutrients even further, fertilizing the interior of continents, the scientists say.

It was the first time the scientists had deployed many instruments in the interior of the continent that could operate year - round even in the coldest parts of Antarctica.

«The bottom line is that the rain will penetrate farther into the interiors of the continents, where most of the reindeer are,» says Putkonen.

These ice sheets move very slowly from the interior of the continent out toward the shoreline.

If ocean - surface temperatures during the Eocene were on the high end of what is suggested by paleo - climate records — 35 to 41 °C — then temperatures in the interior of continents in the tropics would have been up to 10 °C higher.

But the new study shows that animals are a crucial «distribution pump,» the scientists write, transporting masses of fecal matter to fertilize many places that would otherwise be less productive, including ocean surface waters and the interior of continents.

The study also sheds light on how the first Americans dispersed through the continent; Reich found that populations along the coast showed far more genetic diversity than those living in the interior of the continent.

There are few weather stations, most are on the edge rather than in the interior of the continent and records go back just a few decades.

Many anthropologists believed it couldn't have been much earlier than that because although the land bridge was open, much of North America was covered in an ice sheet until then, making it virtually impossible for even the most intrepid early explorers to travel down into the interior of the continent.

The data revealed a carbon sink over Australia from the end of 2010 until 2012, when heavy rains increased the growth of grasses and shrubs across the interior of the continent.

In a comparison of 17 computer models of world climate, all predict global warming will kick in over Antarctica, and most indicate temperatures in the interior of the continent will rise faster than in the rest of the world, said Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.