Sentences with phrase «intra-rift lake basins»

Located at 6,400» in Northern California's Trinity Alps Wilderness - Camp is nestled in a beautiful alpine lake basin, surrounded by rugged peaks and saw - tooth ridges - the perfect location to provide a co-ed wilderness backpacking summer camp to youth ages 10 - 17.

«We think there were a lot of hot spring environments on Mars,» says Farmer, «and large lake basins where evaporites may have formed.

The number of people living in the Great Lakes basin grew dramatically throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

«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.»

«Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south - central Oregon: University of Oregon - led research team uncovers numerous footprints of adult, juvenile and infant elephants in a remote dry lake basin.»

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.

The development of the East African Rift valley fragmented the landscape and formed a large number of separate lake basins.

The effects of the lake variability may have been enhanced at 1.8 Ma as key geological features that fragment the current lake Basins had yet to form; including the Barrier volcano separating Lake Turkana and the Suguta valley (∼ 1.4 Ma eastern side and ∼ 0.7 Ma western side) and the Emuruangogolak volcano (∼ 1.3 Ma), and Namarunu volcano (0.8 Ma) which separate Lake Baringo and the Suguta Valley [35]--[37], [44].

This jump of 80 % expansion in cranial capacity occurs during one of only two periods when there is evidence for at least 5 of the 7 major intra-rift lake basins being active.

Southward propagation of rifting and magmatic activity resulted in the formation of lake basins first in the northern parts of the EARS.

For example when the lake Basins are dry they become «hyper arid» and thus inhabitable and hence hominin population would have been forced to migrate to the north and south [34] but there would also have been a server lack of resources.

The lake basin holds about 20 percent of the world's unfrozen fresh water.A sacred site for Buryat shamans, Lake Baikal's Shaman Rock is steeped in legend.Our train route hugs the rocky shores and passes through 33 tunnels.

Sarah FitzSimons» photo installation Pier presents a mysterious structure in a long - empty lake basin, evoking deep, geologic time.

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.

Abstract:... beneath portions of the northeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet, characterized by cold - based glaciation, sediment sequences representing multiple interglaciations have been preserved within extant lake basins.

Lofgren, B. M., T. S. Hunter, and J. Wilbarger, 2011: Effects of using air temperature as a proxy for potential evapotranspiration in climate change scenarios of Great Lakes basin hydrology.

Increased abundances of invasive species: As climate change alters water temperatures, habitat, and fish communities, conditions that once were barriers to alien species become conduits for establishment and spread.91 This migration will alter drastically the fish communities of the Great Lakes basin.

To examine the relative influence of different processes on the lake basin climate, a suite of model experiments...

In 2012 researchers in the Sierra Nevada also documented a wave of extinction as the fungus» spread through three lake basins around Sequoia National Park.

The rivers of the Great Lakes basin have been heavily impacted by its industrial past, invasive species and a changing climate.

Protection, cleanup and restoration are essential to ensure that we live in a vital, thriving Great Lakes basin.

But this core was taken in what was then the center of the lake basin.

Dr Willis and colleagues report in Nature journal that between 2011 and 2014 they watched as summer meltwater made its way down fissures in the depression and refilled a lake basin at the base of the icecap.

In 1735, Louis XV forbade most mixed marriages; nevertheless, the rise of mixed communities in the Great Lakes basin, particularly along Lake Superior, indicated the prevalence of the practice.

Not exact matches

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However, communities such as Mount Pleasant that straddle the basin boundary can withdraw Great Lakes water for public use.

Beach Energy has accepted Woodside Petroleum's offer to acquire a 70 per cent interest in the Lake Tanganyika basin in Tanzania.

Tullow, which paid $ 1.5 billion in July to acquire Heritage Oil's concessions in the Lake Albert basin, saw the deal halted by government claims that it owed $ 404 million in capital gains taxes from the transaction.

Oregon's top spots this year are the Willamette Valley, along lower Snake and Columbia rivers and in southern Oregon in the Summer Lake, Goose Lake and Klamath basins.

The 50 - acre lake is already in place, and its main purpose is as a stormwater detention basin for McDonald Creek, which will provide flood relief to areas of Prospect Heights, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling as well as its immediate neighborhood in Arlington Heights.

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.

Chief Of Army Staff, Lieutenant - General Yusuff Tukur Buratai on Monday called for enhanced cooperation for effective routing of insurgency and other organised crimes confronting the lake chad basin.

BBC Africa's security correspondent Tomi Oladipo has previously pointed out these promises contradict the amount of money it is investing in new equipment to tackle the group, and the fact they are known to be active in the Lake Chad basin.

The Governor will either deny or support the application of the small city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, which lies outside the natural basin of the Great Lakes, to access water from Lake Michigan in order to replenish its rapidly depleting municipal water supply.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

... Based on the conditions in the basin last year, the Lake Ontario — St. Lawrence River Board found no justification to consider increased outflows at that time, as such action would have lowered lake levels even further below averLake Ontario — St. Lawrence River Board found no justification to consider increased outflows at that time, as such action would have lowered lake levels even further below averlake levels even further below average.

Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole currently on Operation Deep Punch II which is aimed at clearance of the remnants of Boko Haram terrorists within Sambisa forest and Lake Chad basin general area, have continued to record successes.

They said they were part of the NNPC team on a mission to find commercial quantities of oil in the Lake Chad basin.

Meanwhile, following Boko Haram's ambush of NNPC contracted oil explorers in the Lake Chad basin area and rescue efforts by the Nigerian Army, reports emanating from Borno indicate that the death toll has climbed to 69 people.

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.

Tucked beneath East Antarctica's vast ice sheet is a frozen world, complete with subglacial lakes, rivers, basins, volcanoes and mountains.

Due to its unique ecosystem, the Lake Natron basin is on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.

Today nomadic peoples sometimes herd cattle through the region, but people do not live in the Lake Natron basin.

A colony was also found near the head of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that provides a man - made connection between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River basin.

Today the Bodele Depression — the low point of the vast ancient basin in which modern Lake Chad lies — is the most active dust spot in the world.

While using sonar technology to survey the bottom of the lake, they observed a massive pile of stones in the midst of the otherwise smooth basin.

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.

Geoscientists have, for the first time, discovered the origins of Australia's two largest basins: Lake Eyre and the Murray - Darling Basin.

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.