Sentences with phrase «seas along the continental shelf»

As it happens, the extra heat travels into shallow seas along the continental shelf and, over time, the warming also spreads to the deep seabed, destabilizing methane hydrates and free gas trapped over millennia in the permafrost cap.

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In advance of that meeting, more than two dozen «concerned Ross Sea researchers» joined Ainley and Devries in a formal letter demanding a moratorium on fishing over the Ross Sea continental shelf and a reduction in quotas along the continental slope.

They are called polynyas, formations that derive their name from the Russian word for «hole in the ice,» and are typically an expanse of open seawater along the coast that is enclosed by floating sea ice and the continental shelf.

Also beloved by divers, who come for the spectacular drop over the Coral Sea trench along with the kaleidoscope of colourful sea life, the Ribbon Reefs are a long necklace of individual reefs running parallel to the continental sheSea trench along with the kaleidoscope of colourful sea life, the Ribbon Reefs are a long necklace of individual reefs running parallel to the continental shesea life, the Ribbon Reefs are a long necklace of individual reefs running parallel to the continental shelf.

Their scientific cruises on the shallow continental shelf occurred as sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was rapidly melting and as northern Siberia was earning the distinction — along with the North American Arctic and the western Antarctic Peninsula — of warming faster than any place on Earth.

The study also found that the Southern Ocean Circumpolar Current, which helps determine sea - ice extent, is steered by submerged ridges and canyons along the edge of the Antarctic continental shelf, rather than by global warming or other climatic conditions.