Sentences with phrase «salty water into»

A later pass showed that the south pole was much warmer than expected, and was spouting geysers of salty water into space.
Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and salty water into the surrounding muskeg.
This will mean the influx of saltier water into the western basin will cease.

Not exact matches

If you were to order your employees to jump off into the cold salty water, miles from shore on any given day, they'd look at you like you were crazy.
A July 2012 study by researchers at Duke University and California State Polytechnic University at Pomona found that salty water from deep underground could make its way into drinking water near the surface.
In the kitchen, if bread doesn't rise, I repurpose it into crackers; if vegetables are too spicy, I stir in yogurt to cool them down; if a grain bowl is too salty, I add more rice and water.
Cut parsnips and carrots into bite size pieces, and boil in salty water for 20 minutes or until fully cooked.
The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead Sea.
Part of this phosphorus has been replaced by saltier water and moved into the higher water layers.
Chemical clues in the mangroves and algae can also tell how salty the water was, which shows whether or not El Niño was raising the local sea level and causing more seawater to seep into the coastal wetlands.
The results were encouraging: The new «sea water» formed a layer on top of the even saltier Dead Sea water, and flowed back up into the simulated aquifer, effectively plugging it.
The heavier salty water flowing into the main basin has partially replaced the old eutrophic and anoxic water, which has in turn moved towards the mouth of the Gulf of Finland.
The impact of the salty, oxygen - rich water that flowed into the Baltic Sea main basin (Baltic Proper) in December 2014 via the Danish straits was still visible in August up to the deep basins east of Gotland.
Experiments and simulations by Marc Prat at the University of Toulouse in France and colleagues show how salty water evaporating from the pores in these materials leaves behind patches of salt crystals that grow into towers rather than a uniform film.
Beneath it lies another layer of rock full of ancient, salty water, and the change in water flow is allowing that to seep into the fresh water above.
In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.
They suggest that calcium perchlorate in the ground absorbs water from the atmosphere until it dissolves into a salty solution, or brine.
Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.
New research shows that infected crabs can rid themselves of parasites by moving into the less salty water of estuaries.
So when more recent waves and tides brought in salty seawater from the ocean, the brackish water underneath the beaches became salty enough to release the cesium from the sand, and it was carried back into the ocean.
In Oklahoma, the water being put into the ground is mostly salty water that comes up during oil exploration and is then re-injected after the oil has been stripped out.
CO2 pumped into these formations are sealed under impermeable cap rocks, where it gradually dissolves into the salty water and mineralizes.
When CO2 is pumped into underground porous rocks, it combines with metal ions in the salty water that fills the rock pores and mineralizes into mineral carbonates, such as calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
As a result, more melt water is mixing with the salty seawater and pulses of warmer Atlantic seawater have intruded into the Arctic Ocean.
Ground level evaporation during the dry period concentrated calcium in salty surface water flowing into the caves.
Although turning salty ocean water into fresh water is important to benefit poverty - stricken populations, desalination has a very damaging ecological footprint.
«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»
The best - known example of this process, known as salt fingering, occurs where very salty water from the Mediterranean outflow mixes into the North Atlantic.
Evaporation in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean left ocean waters there saltier and put fresh water vapor into the atmosphere.
Wheatgrass shot Raw, organic cold pressed green juice Coconut oil «icing» (2 TBS coconut oil, 1 tsp organic cacao, 1 TBS organic raw honey, 1 tsp almond milk — stir for 30 seconds and enjoy) Dates stuffed with almond butter or other nut butter Organic dark chocolate chips or carob chips Sweet vegetables — yams, sweet potatoes, squash (cut into chunks or fries, sprinkle with cinnamon and bake) Smoothies (mix whatever you have in the kitchen such as fresh or frozen fruit, ice, coconut water or nut milk, avocado, kale or spinach, carob powder or raw cacao, nut butter, seeds, etc.) Craving something SALTY?
While Arnel worked on setting up our umbrella I whisked away to the beach to dip my feet into the salty water, which was beyond refreshing.
Belugas also travel up northern rivers into brackish (partly salty) water and estuaries (where a river meets the seas) to hunt prey during the summer.
Nestle into the plush seating area; savor a cool Caribbean cocktail and breath in the salty sea air from your own private roof terrace with cool water Jacuzzi.
Of course, jumping into the ocean from one of the two docks is a great way to cool off during the day if you crave your water more salty than the pools offer.
The salty water pools into the fairly shallow ponds and the hot sun evaporates the water, allowing the salt to crystalize on the earth walls and floor.
At the mines, salty water is diverted into pools and then dried up by the sun — what's left is a thin layer of salt.
The opposite East Greenland Current brings cold, less salty water and lots of ice from the Arctic back into the Atlantic Ocean.
We might have a saviour in the form of the growing antarctic ice sheets in the southern winter as this causes much more planckton to form on the undersurface of the forming ice sheet driving super saturated salty waters deep into the circum polar antarctic bottom waters which is the main driver of the Great Oceanic Conveyor and later on it's travels the AMOC.
If enough fresh water from melting glaciers flows into the North Atlantic, this would make the seawater less salty and less dense, so that it couldn't sink anymore.
«The overwash events generally result in salty ocean water seeping into the ground and contaminating the freshwater aquifer.
According to fluid modelling, at one point the accumulation of OCAPE was released abruptly (~ 1 month) into kinetic energy of thermobaric cabbeling convection (TCC), resulting in the warmer salty waters getting to the surface and subsequently warming of ca. 2 °C sea surface warming.
A greater - than - normal volume of warm salty tropical water was transported north with the current and this was drawn down into the ocean in the region around 60 ° N - where dense water sinking occurs.
Evaporative loss leaves the ocean saltier; the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf for example have strong evaporative loss; the resulting plume of dense salty water may be traced through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean.
Many factors — like the thermohaline circulation, which reverses direction at the poles as warm salty water releases heat into the air and sinks down to the bottom — are heavily influenced by the ocean's salinity, and thus, the movement of freshwater into and around the Arctic plays an important role in shaping both regional and global climate.
In this case, the study suggests that the massive amounts of fresh water melting into the ocean from Greenland can prevent the sinking of the dense, cold, salty water and alter the AMOC circulation.
As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh water into the salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.
Increase wave action, especially when there's no thick ice to dampen the waves, flooding floes with saltier water that melts the ice, but can also temporarily fool satellite sensors into thinking there's open water.
Climatologists believe this is because more fresh water is coming into the Arctic (from increased river flow and ice sheet melting) and making the water up there less salty and thus less able to sink.
Must be some significant cause and effect to saltier brine water melting and re-freezing every year and sinking into the thermocline that affects ocean currents over long term time scales.
As it pours into the Atlantic, the freshwater is lighter and colder than heavier, salty water that typically occupies that area.
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