Sentences with phrase «salt by metering»

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Kemp and colleagues used salt marshes in North Carolina, where the land has steadily sunk by about two meters in the past two millennia due to glacial isostatic adjustment.

I suspect the amount of additional 33psu surface waters entrained by the sinking brine is indicated by the nearly 35psu salinity of Arctic ocean water below about 300 meters depth; if the salt from each cubic meter of ice formed were added to approximately 15 cubic meters of water at 33psu, it would raise the salinity to near 35psu.

In response to this legislative command to coddle an industry favored by Congress, the Salt River Project instituted a net - metering program that was very generous.

Stefan Bachu, who holds the title «distinguished scientist» at Alberta's provincially funded research organization, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF), said the saline reservoir that the Quest project has chosen for storage is capped by hundreds of meters of solid shale, overlaid by an additional layer of tight salt rock.

Within the core, they found 45 meters (about 150 feet) of salt topped by a layer of pebbles, a record of an ancient, long - forgotten beach.

Even more severe droughts occurred much longer ago, accompanied by salt deposits up to 150 feet (45 meters) thick, researchers said at the meeting.