Sentences with phrase «of sea coral»

A piece of salvaged crown molding serves as a shelf and holds a collection of sea coral.

Tropical hues of pink, blue and orange in this artwork create a vibrant composition of sea coral.

Not exact matches

One month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Fleet, determined that the US carrier fleet needed to be destroyed.

Crucially, the Japanese aircraft carriers that were lost or damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea were not able to participate in the battle, an element that helped secure an American victory.

The Battle of the Coral Sea saw 27 ships from the US Navy and the Australian Navy square off against 53 ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Many of the branching corals that Mote divers had planted in the sea were scoured away.

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acCoral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more accoral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

«It's important to note the sea floor of the approved disposal area consists of sand, silt and clay and does not contain coral reefs or seagrass beds.»

I've done my share of extreme activities and sports: hiking Kilimanjaro, diving the Coral Sea off Australia, skiing a 55 km ski marathon in Wisconsin, running several marathons, and an Ironman triathlon are all on my resume.

Here's more: Coral reefs the world over are dying as warmer sea water bleaches them to death — by some estimates, this whole amazing ecosystem, this whole lovely corner of God's brain, may be extinct by mid-century.

Full fathom five thy father lies: Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - change Into something rich and strangOf his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - change Into something rich and strangof him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea - change Into something rich and strange.

Instead, the darkness of night gives birth to the coral polyp and sea cucumber, to «the barnacle and his child the pearl oyster.»

It should to be embraced by all of Xtianity using sea snakes and coral snakes.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

I usually buy purple kale whenever I see it because it's just so pretty and reminds me of something you might see on a coral reef under the sea.

The white - heavy walls of the lobby and hallways are awash in unfiltered natural sunlight that's fittingly interrupted by sea blue hues, and decorative genuine coral décor abounds — all making guests feel at one with the marine milieu.

It comes up out of the coral forest like a log and vaults half a dozen times while the drag squalls and Larry curses, furiously trying to turn the dory back toward the fish and run with it while the line peels off the spool and the sea catches the dory and rolls her insanely, and I figure we have lost it all.

Rather than a «Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night,» Faulkner offers great sharks burning ghostly in the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a man.

Give your children an unforgettable experience — snorkel or scuba dive the crystal - clear, warm waters of the Florida Keys to view the only living coral reef in the continental U.S. Head to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where kids can see brain corals and sea fans up - close and swim with rays, turtles and tropical coral reef in the continental U.S. Head to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where kids can see brain corals and sea fans up - close and swim with rays, turtles and tropical Coral Reef State Park and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where kids can see brain corals and sea fans up - close and swim with rays, turtles and tropical fish.

With over 200 stickers of sparkly mermaid tails, friendly sea creatures, shell jewellery and seaweed skirts to add as the mermaids swim in a coral reef, ride seahorses, find treasure and more.

Some of the animals featured in the box are clownfish, humpback whale, white - bellied sea eagle, coral, giant clam, Blacktip reef shark, hawksbill turtle, and a prominent feature of THE SHARK!

The event is a reception and dinner to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, where the two countries fought alongside each other against Japan.

«The guests of honor for the evening are seven surviving veterans from the Battle of the Coral Sea — three Americans and four Australians,» said John Berry, the group's president.

President Donald Trump will be here today, at the Intrepid Museum, to commemorate the World War II Battle of the Coral Sea, a Naval victory that prevented a Japanese invasion of Australia.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

Here are some of the shades included in this box: Royal purple, sea foam green, terra cotta, sandy tan, and coral reef.

«We had thought that this species of sea snake was only found on tropical coral reefs.

These coloring pages are filled with seascapes, fish, corals, crustaceans, and plenty of other sea creatures from below.

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

But the USGS study notes that vertical coral accretion is an order of magnitude smaller than expected sea - level rise through 2100.

This is bad news for coral as in the summer months less food reaches them from the surface, says Jordi Salat of the Institute of Sea Sciences in Barcelona, Spain.

Coral reefs, which can grow at a rate of up to 1 centimeter per year, can protect low - lying islands and bolster their foundations to keep them above sea water.

Two meters (six and a half feet) below the surface he encountered a layer of sediment marked by coral fragments, mollusk shells and coarse beach sand that could only have come from the sea.

Therefore she analyzed her Galápagos coral temperature chronologies alongside published coral temperature chronologies from islands farther north and west and instrumental sea surface temperature records from the southern Galápagos town of Puerto Ayora and the Peruvian coastal town of Puerto Chicama.

«Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming: Reefs near Texas endured punctuated bursts of sea - level rise before drowning.»

«This partial drowning of the atolls is very interesting as it shows that the combination of rising sea level and ocean current can be detrimental to coral growth.»

Next summer, they are hoping to check out the ocean floor off the coast of Long Beach, California, in search of deep sea coral.

And it gave us an opportunity to talk about how the planet changes and evolves and [how] what is the driest place on Earth today hasn't always been the driest place on Earth and that those high desert lakes were remnants of when the sea is used to be there, marine fossils and coral in that high desert.

The Odyssey IV can do all this to about 6,000 meters down, some three and three - quarter miles below the surface which means that this machine is well suited to its main goal the study of deep sea coral.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch uses satellite observations of sea surface temperatures and modeling to monitor and forecast when water temperatures rise enough to cause bleaching.

The researchers then looked at four key extreme Australian events — the Angry Summer 2012/13; the Coral Sea marine heatwave of 2016; the severe rain event in Queensland in 2010; and the 2006 drought in southeast Australia — to model how often similar events could occur under each scenario.

As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.

Studies in the Red Sea have found that some species of coral start to dissolve at a saturation of 2.8.

Ramariopsis kunzei looks more like a beautiful white coral living under the sea than a mushroom living on the floor of a tropical forest.

At the same time, rising sea levels due to climate change increasingly threaten low - lying coastal communities with inundation and beach erosion — and stressed corals may not be able to grow vertically fast enough to match the pace of sea level rise.

Like all living museums in the sea, the Kidd shipwreck protects biological resources — most notably, relatively large populations of elkhorn and staghorn coral — as well as archaeological resources.

An analysis of the fossil record shows that coral reefs are most often responsible for the diversity of sea life

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.