Sentences with phrase «relatively shallow depth»

Because of the relatively shallow depth of the waters, novice and beginner divers will find this place a good starting point.

[1] The sheet - like stratus clouds are almost uniformly horizontal, covering large areas but having relatively shallow depth of 500 to 2,000 metres (1,600 to 6,600 ft).

One reason the Tuesday quake, which subjected some three million people to «severe shaking,» was so damaging is that it occurred at a relatively shallow depth, the fault having ruptured about 10 kilometers below the surface, Blanpied noted.

Not exact matches

That may not seem surprising, but the team did note one shocker: Craters left by high - speed drops started out with relatively steep sides but within seconds they avalanched to form slopes with a more stable configuration — a previously unstudied process that widened the crater and made it shallower (image above, where depth is exaggerated by a factor of three).

The temblor was considered relatively shallow with a depth of 5.6 miles, the USGS said.

The waters around the island are relatively shallow with an average depth of between 10 and 25 metres.

Snorkelling is also used by fishermen to harvest lobster, conch and other marine products in relatively shallow areas of up to 50 feet of water depth where they can spot their traps or targets from the surface, and then free dive for retrieval.

The topography of the site is very simple with a relatively shallow fringing reef, and an extensive plateau that ranges in depth from 14 - 26m.

The depth of the beds vary from 35 - 80 feet, so that divers can choose to go deep or stay relatively shallow.

I understand that right now the carbonate compensation depth is shallow, and there are probably relatively low concentrations of carbon fixing bacteria anyway, but as the arctic warms isn't it likely that there will be an increase in carbon sequestration there?

This is still very early science, and we have some estimates of what may happen to those from modelling studies, from looking at the way in which the heating of the very upper layers of the Arctic Ocean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabilise.