Sentences with phrase «lake of salty water»

Not exact matches

Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and salty water into the surrounding muskeg.
And even the land and the water of the nearby lake, which gets saltier each year because of the Empire's pollution, will assist this victory.
In 2007, Melanie Mormile of Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla and colleagues cultured a bacterium from water sampled from one of several salty, acidic lakes in Western Australia.
The researchers validated their approach by analyzing samples from California's Mono Lake, an extremely salty body of water acting as a stand - in for briny water on Mars and on some moons.
She explained that the saltiness of the lakes — four to five times saltier than seawater — allows the water to remain liquid despite below - freezing temperatures.
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»
In fact, each of the nine teams of EPA divers averages over 100 logged missions each year in all varieties of aquatic habitats, ranging from freshwater lakes, rivers, and quarries, to brackish estuaries and the salty waters of the open ocean.
Djibouti COUNTRY ROLL No 50: Djibouti, at the mouth of the Red Sea, with the saltiest water on earth, Lake Assal!
With an average temperature of eight degrees Fahrenheit, six times saltier water than seawater, and the highest nitrous oxide levels of any body of water on Earth, it's safe to call the Lake Vida research site a «challenging environment.»
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z