Sentences with phrase «of brackish»

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.

This would seem to suggest that if the volume of ice melt is as great as suspected, that there had to be a greater salinity in the region that was mixing with the melt water to reduce the expanse and depth of the brackish region.

In When you reach the middle of the Causeway Bridge, you can not see the north or south shores of Lake Pontchartrain, deep blues and muted greens echo the vast expanse of that brackish lake, while dusty greys and shades of concrete recall the long, 24 - mile stretch of bridge that connects the two shores.

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.

The main challenge Rietow took on was the restoration of brackish ancient ponds.

-- Heikki Peltonen, Finnish Environment Institute, MRC, Finland, Behavioural responses of brackish water fish on underwater noise — novel experimental approaches

These layers meet and mix in a lens of brackish water called the halocline.

Not exact matches

Some of the industry's largest players are also investing in high - tech water recycling systems to frack with grey or brackish water.

Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us — and thus meets the truth about itself.

Saison was the Gatorade of the 1800s: hydrating and — at least compared with the brackish European well water — restorative.

Blackwater is a bastardization of Brackwater, as in, the water is brackish, quite salty in fact, because the Essex coast is dry, by English standards anyway.

The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water.

Five species of invasive gobies populate wide areas of freshwater and brackish waters in Central Europe — the species that is most common to the region around Basel, Neogobius melanostomus, even figures among the 100 worst invaders in Europe.

Duncan has founddozens of varieties of the grass over the years, in mangrove swamps andlow - lying bogs; some can remain submerged under brackish water for aslong as a month.

The population exposed to fluctuating selective pressure in a spawning area with occasional brackish water intrusions tolerated higher salinities on average, and performed reasonably well over a range of different salinities.

Instead, brackish groundwater underneath the beaches has accumulated the second highest levels of the radioactive element (surpassed only by the groundwater directly beneath the reactor), researchers report October 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

«And again, given that Hoyo Negro pit was dry when Naia made her way to the bottom, the florets had to have grown between the time of her death and 10,000 years ago when the bottom of the pit became submerged by brackish water because of rising sea level.

Secretive marsh birds like clapper rails, king rails and soras — one of which has already been found oiled — frequent brackish and salt marsh habitat.

Here a group of young men in the Niger Delta travel to the refinery that they built and operate, hidden deep within the brackish mangrove channels near the coast of the Atlantic.

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.

In addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metals.

In any case, a new market analysis by Lux Research forecasts that the global desalinated water supply will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent during the next decade as Australia, Israel, Singapore, California and others build desalinization plants for seawater and inland brackish water as well as for water recycling.

Dotted across the landscape of this coastal foreland are numerous temporary freshwater ponds, seeps and small streams that are disconnected from the brackish lake body.

The team filled the central chamber of their cell with brackish water containing 5 grams of sodium chloride per litre, as might be found in an estuary, and applied a voltage of 0.55 volts to the setup.

The study indicates the Eocene Arctic sand tiger shark, a member of the lamniform group of sharks that includes today's great white, thresher and mako sharks, was thriving in the brackish water of the western Arctic Ocean back then.

«This study shows the Arctic Ocean was very brackish and had reduced salinity back then,» said University of Chicago postdoctoral researcher Sora Kim, first author on the study.

«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.

This rapid proliferation of unconventional oil and gas recovery has also resulted in millions of gallons of highly brackish wastewater, which comes up with the retrieved oil and gas.

Dominated by brackish marsh, this area was badly damaged by saltwater intrusion and erosion following the dredging of the MRGO.

In a new study scientists at SciLifeLab / Uppsala University and their colleagues report that whole genome sequencing of Atlantic and Baltic herring revealed hundreds of loci underlying adaptation to the brackish Baltic Sea or timing of reproduction.

A study published in Genome Biology, led by Anders Andersson at KTH Royal Institute of Technology / SciLifeLab, shows that the closest relatives of bacterial plankton in the Baltic Sea are not found in oceans or freshwater lakes, but in other brackish environments.

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).

Like the ancestors of modern terrestrial creatures, Qingmendous dwelled in brackish waters of lagoons, bays and deltas — within spitting distance of land.

Huge, squiggly teeth protrude from his lower lip, and powerful, muscle - bound fins allow him to sluice through the brackish water of a prehistoric lagoon.

A. bridgei is the last common ancestor of modern jawed fishes and supposedly lived in quite shallow brackish waters.

He said they were probably similar to the bull sharks of today, in the fact that they can survive in both brackish swamps and shallow oceans.Gogáin also mentioned that this may be part of the way fish started to colonize inland fresh waters.

Vibrio bacteria live in coastal bodies of salt water or brackish water; people can contract the bugs by swimming in contaminated water or even eating contaminated raw seafood, like oysters.

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

2018-04-07 13:49 Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

Seagrasses are found in shallow salty and brackish waters in many parts of the world, from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.

Brent Spiner's Dr. Brackish Okun was presumed dead, but rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.

The cast of Independence Day 2 has swelled further this week, with director Roland Emmerich revealing via Twitter that actress Joey King (Oz The Great and Powerful, Wish I Was Here) has joined the sequel, as well as confirming the return of Brent Spiner, who featured in the 1996 original as Dr. Brackish Okun.

Miscarriage, murder, poverty, and endemic racism, all set in a brackish sea of dreariness, is enough to make a body despair of humanity.

Until recently, axolotls were said to be still living in the brackish canals of Xochimilco; in reality they're practically extinct even there.

«All of these creatures multiplying in the brackish far reaches, the suburbs coming out to meet them.»

Surrounded by water, several thousand islands in the Greek Archipelago face the paradox of little or no fresh water of their own: wells produce brackish water or they produce salt water.

Rift Lake cichlids fans, L - number pleco lovers, brackish - water devotees and loach enthusiasts, for example, are all likely to care very little about any fish outside their narrow circles of interest.

Leaving marine organisms out of the picture, there are still many freshwater and brackish species that command high prices.

In the case of marine and brackish environments, that goes for the specific gravity as well.