Sentences with phrase «land movements»

To improve scientific utility for sea level studies, numerous modern tide gauges are being augmented with automated, continuous GPS measuring instruments which records vertical land movements.

We have an area not far from us where the banks won't lend money anymore on alot of beautiful new homes because of of land movement.

I'm talking about the natural land movement that rolls through and across all 18 holes.

This place has been built without altering or changing any natural view and also without the use of heavy machinery or any major land movement.

The records were corrected for contributions to sea - level rise made by vertical land movements.

Occasionally, you can combine sinkhole coverage together with earthquake insurance as a general land movement policy.

Occasionally, you can combine sinkhole coverage together with earthquake insurance as a general land movement policy.

Unless the tectonic land movement at each station is accurately calculated, it is very difficult to estimate what the real sea level changes have been at these stations.

«Agathis is a very dramatic example of survival via huge range shifts, from the far south to the tropics, in response to climate change and land movement over millions of years,» said Wilf.

The scientists have also shown that existing coastal GNSS stations, installed primarily for the purpose of measuring land movements, can be used to make sea level measurements.

That means that both long - term and short - term land movements (post-glacial rebound and earthquakes) can be taken into consideration.

Vertical land movements such as resulting from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), tectonics, subsidence and sedimentation influence local sea level measurements but do not alter ocean water volume; nonetheless, they affect global mean sea level through their alteration of the shape and hence the volume of the ocean basins containing the water.

I saw similar ones in Greece and Spain, so land movements are not the explanation.

Their work includes completing surveys, checking effects on environment, creating maps from digital images, identifying land movements and its causes, collecting data, and analyzing data by using geographic information systems.

Slone said surveys of the Hoffman land are ongoing, and a pipe was put into place that contains a measuring device that records land movement.

Fortunately, earthquakes and other dramatic tectonic land movements might be detectable in once - off jumps in tidal records.

The offshore fault line activity is widely believed to be associated with land movement that relates to the San Andreas Fault throughout areas around Bakersfield where it has a bend or geological stress.

These estimates were made based on the various contributors to sea level rise: thermal expansion of ocean volume as a result of warming, the melting of glaciers and Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, changing ocean dynamics such as the slowing of the Gulf Stream, and vertical land movement.

It examines sea level from tide gauges and satellites, vertical land movement, ocean modelling, storms, wind and waves, tsunamis, and the occurrence of extreme events in order to evaluate the dangers faced.

He studied air and sea surface temperature, wind speed, rainfall trends, and land movements that could lead to sea level drop.

«Get in line» is what William Anderson, former chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, says of the current take - back - federal - lands movement.

More recently back - to - the - land movements are (re) discovering the region.

There's a back to the land movement of sorts around Las Vegas these days, driven by the desert city's growing realization that the only reason it can exist — the sapphire, but shrinking, expanse of Lake Mead 30 miles away — is not as durable as the Hoover Dam that created the reservoir 70 years ago.

Further, land movements, both isostatic and tectonic, will continue through the 21st century at rates that are unaffected by climate change.

Their interim plan, to use any GPS stations within 15 km (I think) is only «better than nothing» and allows at least, in most cases, to correct for continental vertical land movement (VLM), but does not account for vertical movement of the structure to which the Tide Gauge is actually attached, which means that all VLM attributable to local subsidence looks like SLR at the gauge.

What this research shows is that rather than very slowly increasing for thousands of years, only to be spurred on by recent increases in greenhouse gases and warming, sea levels have been more or less steady since the Roman era right up through the 19th century — and that's even taking into account any land movements in relation to the sea that have occurred.

But they have not been without their critics, arguing that Transition feels like a rebranding of the back - to - the - land movement, or hinting that it is deeply skewed to the left - leaning, hippy end of the cultural spectrum.

We tried to modify as little as possible the environment by building the house on a slope, and thus reducing the land movements, foundation and generation of waste products.

OPCA litigants consider themselves «sovereign or natural citizens» or members of the Freeman - on - the - Land movement or «de-taxers.»