Sentences with phrase «rich bottom water»

Sorry, I thought you were trying to fertilize algae with nutrient - rich bottom water.

Another is to nourish the ocean surface waters, by pumping deep, nutrient - rich bottom water to the surface to give algae a chance to bloom across the oceans.

More fresh water in the surface water layers makes it harder for the nutrient - rich bottom water to rise to the upper layers where the sunlight ensures the production of plankton algae in summer.

A strong wind causes the stratified lake to turn over; the gas - rich bottom waters, upon reaching the surface, release their gas in huge quantities.

Not exact matches

The team used flat - bottomed boats to traverse the three river mouths, each so wide that you can not see land, in water so rich with sediment that it looks like chocolate milk.

But the dominant theory nowadays is that primitive microorganisms first assembled in hot, chemical - rich water at hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.

Previous studies, including work by Cai, have shown that acidification can be particularly serious in nutrient - rich coastal waters which often contain areas with too little oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide near the bottom.

This zone is suspected to be due to a combination of factors, most importantly, from acids produced when bottom water rich in toxic hydrogen sulfide gets mixed upward.

«The water is crystal - clear, the salt and nutrient content is low and it's extremely oxygen - rich — even at the very bottom of the lake,» says Dr Till Luckenbach, an ecotoxicologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).

As this hot, mineral - rich water comes into contact with the cold bottom water, these minerals precipitate and form deposits on the surrounding rocks.

The bottom layer contains a water / ethanol mixture which kills the engine, the top layer contains a rich mixture of gasoline and a smaller portion of ethanol.

If your family would like to take to the water in a grander fashion, a glass - bottomed boat tour is a fantastic way to keep the kids entertained while allowing further consideration of the riches of the Aegean Sea.

Upwelling sucks cold nutrient - rich water that normally lies at the bottom of the ocean to the surface, providing food for hundreds of species.

Mineral - rich waters and the sandy bottoms of the pools have a notoriously restorative effect.

Deep and powerfull currents run along the bottom of canyon randomly hiting undersea bluffs that force the nutrient rich water to the surface.

It offers large - scale aquatic habitats, diverse bottom topography, and a rich diversity of species and ecosystems in water in various climate zones that are found nowhere else.