Sentences with phrase «into brackish»

Belugas also travel up northern rivers into brackish (partly salty) water and estuaries (where a river meets the seas) to hunt prey during the summer.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

Unlike other freshwater turtles, these guys venture into brackish water for days at a time.

Not exact matches

The Volunteers, ranked fifth in the nation (to the Gators» ninth) going into the game, slowly sank in Florida Field, a brackish place that Spurrier christened the Swamp.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

So when more recent waves and tides brought in salty seawater from the ocean, the brackish water underneath the beaches became salty enough to release the cesium from the sand, and it was carried back into the ocean.

«As more freshwater flows into the Arctic Ocean due to global warming, I think we are going to see it become more brackish,» said Eberle, also curator of fossil vertebrates at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

There are some 12 different species of Vibrio living in salt or brackish water that oysters might come into contact with.

This portion of the watershed, which will be an extension to Crissy Field Marsh, will entail restoring an area previously covered by pavement, landfill and Doyle Drive into creek, dune, and brackish marsh.

The young spend their juvenile stages in brackish water and the adults migrate into the marine environment.

Great Brak is called such because of the brackish water of the Brak Rivers - the lagoon mouth is divided into two sandy channels with a small island between them.

As you descend through this layer of fresh / brackish water you will pass through the mixing zone or halocline into the salt water which instantly becomes crystal clear.

Since Bermuda's wells only yield brackish or salt water, Bermudians collect rainwater by paving grooves into their roofs in order to funnel water into underground tanks.

«A distinguishing feature of the river is the fact that it emerges directly into the sea, and that the lower portion of the river is brackish and subject to tidal influences.»

After three decades it continues to rise into view and fall below the brackish water, and it runs the risk of becoming lost forever, as did Smithson himself.

The vaquita, a porpoise living in brackish waters where the Colorado River empties into the Gulf of California, is critically endangered, biologists say, depleted by fishing nets and the disruptions in the great river's flow in the 20th century from dam construction.

Think instead of open ponds of brackish water on non-arable land teaming with microbes that produce an oil film that floats on the surface that is easily removed and can be put straight into the fuel tank of oil - burning vehicles.

As they grow and mature, the fish move downriver into the most brackish waters of the lower Hudson.