Sentences with phrase «of lake basins»

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

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

Not exact matches

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 basiOf 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 basiof 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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Barely the length of a fingernail, the Southeast Asian liver fluke is a flatworm that thrives in the freshwater lakes and rivers of the Mekong basin.

By the 1950s, a declining mayfly population in the western basin of Lake Erie indicated widespread anthropogenic eutrophication (human activities resulting in more nutrients such as phosphorus in the water, leading in turn to decreased oxygen levels).

Dr. Donald Stewart, a fisheries professor at ESF, found evidence in the monograph of a second species belonging to the genus Arapaima, air - breathing giants that live in shallow lakes, flooded forests and connecting channels in the Amazon River basin.

During the Last Glacial Maximum when the Earth was much colder, closed - basin lakes in currently dry parts of western North America, the Middle East and South America were much larger than they are now, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating and other testing of their ancient shorelines.

«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.»

If the upper basin fails to deliver the mandatory amount of water from Lake Powell to Lake Mead, the lower basin states of Arizona, Nevada and California could make a «compact call» for their water.

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.

Water above ground in the basin's rivers and lakes is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and its losses are documented.

Monthly measurements in the change in water mass from December 2004 to November 2013 revealed the basin lost nearly 53 million acre feet (65 cubic kilometers) of freshwater, almost double the volume of the nation's largest reservoir, Nevada's Lake Mead.

Gone for ever are animals like the plains rat kangaroo which once lived on the fringes of the Lake Eyre basin, and...

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).

Their lawyers must convince a jury that any of this issues has increased the risk of flooding from storm surges in the Flood Authority's jurisdiction — roughly the basins of lakes Borgne and Pontchartrain.

The lake is anoxic below a depth of 200 m, thus the silty diatomaceous clay that accumulates in the deep basins has not been subject to bioturbation throughout much of the lake's history.

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

Executive director of the Regional Science Consortium, which coordinates research for Lake Erie and Ohio River Basins, talks buoys in Pennsylvania's Lake Erie waters

His team studies lakes of concentrated salt solution, known as anoxic hypersaline basins, on the floor of the Mediterranean.

Later in the Pliocene (about 4.1 mya), a large body of water, Lonyumun Lake, covered the Turkana basin for about 100,000 years.

Lorenyang Lake, a body of water formed during the Pleistocene (1.9 mya), was much longer - lasting than any other lake in the Turkana baLake, a body of water formed during the Pleistocene (1.9 mya), was much longer - lasting than any other lake in the Turkana balake in the Turkana basin.

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], [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], [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], [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], [Lake Baringo and the Suguta Valley [35]--[37], [44].

The lake variability index was calculated by collating the published geological evidence for the appearance of either deep ephemeral or shallow alkaline lakes in seven major Basins in 50 kyrs sections over the last 5 Myrs [15], [17], [23]--[27], [34]--[37].

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.

The progressive formation of the EARS also led to the production of isolated basins within which lakes could form.

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 major rivers of Montana export more than 40 million acre - feet of water / yr (4.9 x1010 m3 / yr) 2 — more than twice the capacity of Flathead Lake — with the majority, approximately 60 %, generated in the Clark Fork and Kootenai river basins west of the Continental Divide.

1 - Introduction 2 - Hydrological cycle 3 - Drainage basin 4 - Long profile of river 5 - Upper, middle and lower course 6 - V shaped valleys 7 - Waterfalls 8 - Meanders and ox bow lakes 9 - Mid test 10 - Flooding 11 - Boscastle mystery 12 - Boscastle ICT 13 - Flooding in Bangladesh 14 - Rivers GIS 15 - Revision

Moreover, the small episode I selected from People of the Lakes painted a pulsating depiction of life along the ribbons of waterways of the Mississippi basin in pre-Columbian times.

An added obstacle to development and living condition improvements is the presence and impact of Boko Haram within the the Lake Chad catchment area of Nigeria and along the borders of the Lake Chad Basins.

The shrinking of the water coverage within the Lake Chad Basins is seen through the series of Satellite photographs which allows students to follow the process by remote sensing.

The beach is part of the Lake George Beach State Park, located in Lake George's Southern basin.