Sentences with word «seaway»

«These atolls basically drowned, which opened seaways across the Maldives that increased the monsoon activity,» said Eberli.

In theory shipping firms should benefit from access to a more open seaway.

Rep. Bill Owens wants answers to why a fuel tanker with steering problems was allowed to enter the St. Lawrence seaway.

Two area state lawmakers say they have reached agreement on bipartisan legislation to provide $ 90 million in financial relief for people living along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River seaway.

During the last ice age, lowered sea level drained the Bering Strait, the narrow seaway now separating Alaska and Asia.

The formation was laid down layer by layer over tens of millions of years as sediment was deposited on the bottom of a vast seaway known as the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.

During the final seaway transgression, some 65 million years ago, certain organisms undergo a great amount of environmental stress.

The new study also ruled as unlikely some theorized causes of the warming episode, including an asteroid impact, slow melting of permafrost, burning of organic - rich soil or drying out of a major seaway.

One attempt to use naval power in 1915 by the Allies ended in disaster: the attempt by battleships to force a way through the Dardanelles, the narrow seaway leading to Constantinople.

«People have wondered for a long time what rifted off there, and I think it was probably North America, opening up this deep seaway,» Dalziel said.

Although T. rex emerged some 10 million years after Lythronax, both lived at a place called Laramidia, which existed along the western shores of a great seaway that separated North America.

The presence of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs in the Upper Jurassic of India, Madagascar and South America implies that a marine seaway possibly connected the western Tethys with South America via the Indian Ocean in the Late Jurassic facilitating faunal exchanges between Europe and Gondwanan continents.

Famed for its wildlife, lush climate, spectacular views, and the protected seaway known as the inside passage, the region has attracted humans since the first people crossed from Asia thousands of years ago.

The opening and closing of ocean gateways: the opening of the Drake Passage; the opening of the Tasmanian Gateway and the closing of the Tethys seaway; along with the final formation of the Greenland — Iceland — Faroes sill; played vital parts in reshaping oceanic currents during the Oligocene.

If you're feeling really energetic, ride as far as the Gold Coast seaway and grab an old - fashioned fresh crab sandwich on white bread at the Seaway Kiosk.

Comment from contributors reacting to news of a commercial ship poised to travel the northern sea route provide some fascinating perspectives on the implications of the Arctic Ocean's becoming a functional seaway:

Jochum, M; Fox - Kemper, B; Molnar, PH; Shields, C (2009), Differences in the Indonesian seaway in a coupled climate model and their relevance to Pliocene climate and El Nino.

Reduce carbon dioxide emissions even further, take greater steps to conserve forests and keep the global temperature at the 1.5 ° C maximum rise, and the chances are that the Arctic seaways will open only about one summer in 40 years.

The equatorially situated east — west Tethyan seaway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans was modified significantly in the east during the middle Eocene — about 45 million years ago — by the junction of India with Eurasia, and it was severed into two parts by the confluence of Africa, Arabia, and Eurasia during the early Miocene approximately 18 million years ago.

The Sky Sail can not replace diesel entirely, since the sail is not capable of powering the ship in or out of port, can not be used in narrow or crowded seaways and can not go upwind (an angle of 50 degrees is maximal, with 70 degrees being the limit of efficiency in reality).

The Northern Hemisphere glaciation, which began 3.2 million years ago, was driven by tectonic events, such as the closing of the Panama seaway and the uplift of the Andes, the Tibetan Plateau, and western parts of North America.

I still have Newport Beach sand in my shoes, and a stack of shells picked up on the Cape Cod seaway.

Regarding the Paleocene - Eocene event itself, the field seems to be coming around to the idea that it had something to do with a greatly accelerated oxidation of organic carbon stored on land, perhaps associated with the drying up of interior shallow seaways.

The opening and closing of seaways has a profound influence on the distribution of fresh water, nutrients, and energy in the global ocean.

Two area state lawmakers say that they are introducing bipartisan legislation to provide some financial relief for people living along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River seaway.

In our new take on the song, David added whale - ish notes on his bass clarinet along with samples of the crackle and shoosh of floating sea ice and we added two new verses taking the story from the ice - locked end of the little ice age to this era of warming, melting and opening seaways.

This is an example where there's an important federal piece to ensuring that our roads, bridges, waterways, seaways, sewers, have the infrastructure funding they need.

The world of dinosaurs was much warmer than the present day; Nasutoceratops lived in a subtropical swampy environment about 100 km from the seaway.

Most known Laramidian dinosaurs were concentrated in a narrow belt of plains sandwiched between the seaway to the east and mountains to the west.

Just before the Hell Creek sediments were deposited, about 68 million years ago, the seaway withdrew for good, leaving behind the configuration of continent and surrounding oceans that exists today.

For tens of millions of years, the seaway retreated and advanced, its western edge once advancing within 50 miles of the Rocky Mountains.

In the past, he notes, the number and diversity of mollusks diminished whenever the seaway rose and extended its reach into the west.

Another theory: oxidation of organic matter — as permafrost thawed, as peaty soils burned or as a seaway dried up — may have caused the Paleocene - Eocene warming.

A plethora of monkey species lived in South America at the time, but it was then an island continent, cut off from its northern neighborhood by a seaway at least 160 kilometers wide.

They had been carried from the seaway.

Obviously, we don't have interior shallow seaways to dry up today, but one could envision a feedback process where warming accelerates oxidation of soil carbon, which leads to more warming, and so forth.

The tyrannosaurid dinosaurs likely evolved in isolation on the island continent, with incursions of the seaway separating small areas of land from each other.

Evidence suggests this seaway was a series of events that progressed and regressed from the middle Jurassic onward.

Forced to confront Beckett and the East Indian Trading Company's exploitation of the seaways, they rally the elusive and eccentric Pirate Lords from around the world, as well as the unlucky Jack Sparrow who has been deigned to the realm of the dead by a dishonorable deed.