Sentences with phrase «into lake basin»

«Severe harmful algal bloom predicted for Lake Erie in 2015: Second worst in century predicted: Heavy June rains causing heavy nutrient runoff into lake basin.»

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He recalled that a research conducted by a professor in a London university and published over three decades ago had predicted that unless one or some of the rivers from the Central African region are diverted to empty into the Lake Chad basin, the river would dry up.

The decision to conduct comprehensive tests follows two Investigative Post stories earlier this month (found here and here) that reported the beach rests in a harbor basin contaminated with PCBs and is close to two Superfund sites that have leached toxins into Lake Erie and the Outer Harbor.

The analysis, coupled with reporting by our environmental reporter Dan Telvock, painted a picture of a beach whose waters rest in a harbor basin contaminated with PCBs and whose neighbors include two Superfund sites that are leaching toxins into Lake Erie and the Outer Harbor.

The basin now occupied by Lake Tanganyika came into being at least 5.5 million years ago, and it has been assumed that the species radiation that gave rise to the striking diversity of cichlids in the lake was triggered by its formatLake Tanganyika came into being at least 5.5 million years ago, and it has been assumed that the species radiation that gave rise to the striking diversity of cichlids in the lake was triggered by its formatlake was triggered by its formation.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

The lakes they examined are so - called closed - basin lakes, which have rivers feeding into them, but not draining them, meaning that changes in lake levels are governed solely by precipitation and evaporation.

In addition to providing hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell stores water from the upper basin states and releases it into downstream Lake Mead to ensure the upper basin states meet their obligations under the 1922 compact.

More than 1,400 wastewater treatment plants in the United States and Canada discharge 4.8 billion gallons of treated effluent into the Great Lakes basin every day, according to the study.

Here we take the age of 75.0 ± 0.9 ka B.P., which was calculated using the currently best constrained 40Ar / 39Ar optimization model (4, 31) as the most robust age for the YTT, and import it into a revised Bayesian age model for the Lake Malawi central basin core, MAL05 - 1C (Fig. 4).

The country is relatively dry, and we pass few signs of habitation along our route until we cross a 4,528 metre / 14,852 ft pass and descend into the basin of Lake Titicaca.

Then we'll cross the Cardrona Saddle and drop into Queenstown, a picturesque town set in a basin on the edge of Lake Wakatipu and surrounded by snowy peaks.

Its practitioners included Robert Smithson, whose Spiral Jetty (1970) in Utah's Great Salt Lake basin is one of the movement's best - known works, and James Turrell, an artist represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix whose Roden Crater project started in 1972 involves the ongoing transformation of a volcanic crater into a large - scale art work.

In this data activity, students interpret raw data on snow cover and explore the climatic impact of the «lake effect» - a significant factor determining snowfall amount in the Great Lakes drainage basin is the surface temperature of the lakes... (View More) Step - by - step instructions for use of the MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS) guide students through selecting a data set, importing the data into a spreadsheet, creating graphs, and analyzing data pLakes drainage basin is the surface temperature of the lakes... (View More) Step - by - step instructions for use of the MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS) guide students through selecting a data set, importing the data into a spreadsheet, creating graphs, and analyzing data plakes... (View More) Step - by - step instructions for use of the MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS) guide students through selecting a data set, importing the data into a spreadsheet, creating graphs, and analyzing data plots.

Likewise, some of the Sierra Nevada meltwater flows into Nevada's Great Basin, and some Andes meltwater flows into the endorheic basins of the Altiplano and Lake Titicaca as well as the Atacama Desert.

I am suggesting using the Great Lakes as a broader measure, homogenizing many local areas into a much larger water shed basin with a reasonable historical measurement archive readily available.

In addition, compact development will leave more room for natural and / or man - made detention basins to filter sediments before they make their way into Lake Tahoe and degrade its prized clarity, Hitchcock said.