Sentences with phrase «shallow continental shelf»

The waves that run along shallow continental shelves are much larger than those over the deep ocean, and so the force applied by the standing waves is also larger in shallow water.

The increased wave action reaches down and stirs up sediments on shallow continental shelves, releasing radium and other chemicals that are carried up to the surface and swept away into the open ocean by currents such as the Transpolar Drift.

Under this scenario, most of the clathrate deposits in the arctic (both tundra and shallow continental shelf deposits) could be released into the atmosphere in a fairly short period of time (less than a century), implying a rate of outgassing that makes 100 times present estimated levels a vast underforecast.

The finding indicates that large - scale changes are happening along the coast — because the source of the radium is the land and shallow continental shelves surrounding the ocean.

The radium was transported from land and shallow continental shelves by currents such as the Transpolar Drift.

Data collected over the last 20 years have shown that the present ice loss in West Antarctica results from the relatively warm water from the deep ocean flowing on to the shallow continental shelf.

Nienhuis and his colleagues applied the new method to 25 river deltas on the north shore of the Indonesian island of Java, a region where sediments have deposited on a shallow continental shelf, creating a wide variety of delta shapes.

Their effect was only to expand the world's calcium carbonate sinks from the shallow continental shelves to some of the deeper ocean (Westbroek 1991).»

Lead author Richard Aronson, professor and head of Florida Tech's Department of Biological Sciences, said the rising temperature of the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula — one of the most rapidly warming places on the planet — should make it possible for king crab populations to move to the shallow continental shelf from their current deep - sea habitat within the next several decades.

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.

There is also a wide, shallow continental shelf that makes construction of wind farms far out to sea, beyond the sight of significant opposition, relatively less difficult and costly.

Given the shallow continental shelf and the uncrowded Southern Ocean, Victoria's wind farms could progressively migrate offshore.

The dissipative friction force is a viscous friction between the surface mixed layer and the deeper ocean layers or the shallow continental shelf.

Thus, the strong western boundary currents are so deep that they are deflected by the continental margins, which prevent these currents from flowing onto the shallow continental shelves.

We worked mostly on the shallow continental shelf areas where water depths vary between 50 and 500 meters.

The sinking occurs in several locations around Antarctica where large, shallow continental shelves are mostly covered by ice.

Their effect was only to expand the world's calcium carbonate sinks from the shallow continental shelves to some of the deeper ocean (Westbroek 1991).»

Wind speeds off the Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico are lower than off the Pacific Coast, but their wide, shallow continental shelves give them higher development potential.

Most pending offshore wind projects are along the New England and Mid-Atlantic coast for three reasons: First, the strong, consistent winds there — which a recent University of Delaware estimated as having the potential to generate 330 gigawatts of power, enough to meet a significant proportion of the energy needs of the Atlantic coastal states from Massachusetts to North Carolina — can be tapped on the broad, shallow continental shelf.