Sentences with phrase «shallow depths»

The exaggeration of the HTC U11's waterproof capabilties is argued by HTC, with the company saying that the ad shows the phone being only briefly submerged at shallow depths, a situation covered by the device's IP67 rating.

The same can now be said for the iPhone, whose IP67 certification protects it from dust and somewhat shallow depths of water for up to 30 minutes.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

Accumulation of gas at shallow depths may cause large - scale collapses of continental margins.

Significant methane release can occur when on - shore permafrost is thawed by a warmer atmosphere (unlikely to occur in significance on less than a century timescale) and undersea clathrate at relatively shallow depths is melted by warming water.

Reading between the lines I just assumed they ran into reviewers with attitudes like yours — reviewers that just refused to believe these meta - stable hydrates exist or could exist at such shallow depths.

This is the primary dive site for beginners, and thanks to its shallow depths is also the most colourful.

The hotel has a nice big pool with shallow depths good for the younger kids, spray fountains, basketball hoop, volleyball net and gas barbeques.

Diving on the Chinchorro reef you will find a large variety of coral species, including black coral at unusually shallow depths and many other species of soft coral that are found sporadically and in small quantities on the Great Maya Reef that are vibrant and abundant in Chinchorro.

Riddled by numerous large caves in shallow depths, this dive is easily accessed from Club Paradise Restaurant by step carved out of the iron shore entering the water.

With its shallow depths and clear protected water, Grumpy's reef is the perfect spot for Discover Scuba Dives or a nice relaxing dive after one of the more adventurous wreck dives we offer.

Turtle and dolphin encounters may take place in shallow depths or in deeper water with participants wearing snorkel or scuba gear while swimming with the animals.

With its shallow depths and little to no current, it is the perfect spot for a laid back Discover Scuba Diver, or as a more leisurely compliment to the Corsair wreck dive.

With its shallow depths, you can expect a nice long bottom time here.

The positive is that lower, safer frequencies at shallow depths may still show promise for shoreline swimmers, but the prospect that anyone would rush such technology to market, and possibly change signal strengths emitted - on a whim and without governance - brings up real ethical issues.

Inland, dive operators in the Dominican Republic take advanced divers to visit the freshwater caverns, located at shallow depths, 25 to 60 feet (7.6 to 18.2 meters) with stellar underwater visibility of 200 feet (61 meters) or more.

Additional Information This species of spiny lobster is often encountered in rocky dens or in beds of surfgrass at relatively shallow depths.

The shallow depths around the cays average 4 - 8 feet.

The combination of the sandy bottom, shallow depths and mix of reef life makes diving in Sanur particularly interesting for the novice diver.

Dr. Robert Dill, who obtained samples at relatively shallow depths (90160 FSW) as Chief Geologist on Cousteau's 1970 expedition to the Blue Hole, had waited 27 years to make this return trip to get additional data to answer questions on the geological record concerning average sea levels.

Majahuitas is a coved area, close to shore, with a gradual slope and is populated by friendly schools of tropical fish and is a favorite amongst snorkelers and divers alike due to its shallow depths and abundance of aquatic life.

Shark diving at Guadalupe Island takes place in cages set at shallow depths.

The directors who stroked the most sensitive performances out of Hudson were those who detected the hurt and worry beneath the shallow depths of his bland affability.

A disappointing movie, overall, that lacks any self - awareness, Collateral Beauty has no real heart in its shallow depths.

The absence of overturning circulation enables anthropogenic CO2 to penetrate only into shallow depths, resulting in less accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 in these basins.

Off the coast of West Africa, swirling eddies carry dead zones with remarkably low oxygen levels at shallow depths, according to an international study.

Variations in texture seen in different portions of the fault surface may explain why Costa Rica has complex, patchy earthquakes that do not seem to slip to shallow depths, unlike some other megathrust faults, said first author Joel Edwards, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

Building for depth A common design for shallow depths is a simple pole driven into the seafloor, called a monopile.

However, on January 12 in Science, Dundas and colleagues reported finding eight slopes where layers of water ice were exposed at shallow depths (SN Online: 1/11/18).

The pupae died at the soil surface and in very shallow depths below ground, Thom said.

«We found that very little ancient methane reaches surface waters even in the relatively shallow depths of 100 feet.

By employing a technique they developed that involves collecting methane from roughly ten thousand gallons of seawater per sample, they made a surprising discovery: ancient - sourced methane is indeed being released into the ocean; but very little survives to be emitted to the atmosphere, even at surprisingly shallow depths.

Unlike other forms of carbon storage, waste gases can be converted to stone at relatively shallow depths, the leakage risk is minimal and the results are permanent.

But I think perhaps that I, peering through the faux - deep shallows of Southern California to its faux - shallow depths, finally do.

«That combination of both storing more stress and the ability for it to propagate farther is important for both generating large earthquakes and for propagating to very shallow depths,» said Nathan Bangs, a senior research scientist at UTIG and study co-author.

A surprising number of U.S. oil and gas wells, similar to this one, are hydraulically fractured at shallow depths, a new study finds.

As the heads of mantle plumes can partly melt when they reach shallow depths, they are thought to be the cause of volcanic centers known as hotspots and probably also to have caused flood basalts.

By analyzing seismic wave data from monitoring stations around the region, seismologists concluded the North Korean blast had come from shallow depths, no more than a few kilometers within the mountain.

«Those special conditions of temperature and pressure induce minerals in the rock to break down to other minerals, and in the process of this phase transformation a fault can form and suddenly move, radiating the shaking — just like at shallow depths,» Green said.

Most of the large earthquakes in South America are constrained to shallow depths of 0 to 70 km resulting from both crustal and interplate deformation.

«Magnitude 8.2 earthquake off Chile: Thrust faulting at shallow depths near the Chilean coast.»

«When the carcass of a vertebrate reaches the Mediterranean seabed and remains at shallow depths, it is free - living bacteria that degrade its bones and decompose the organic material.

'' The water temperature where Osedax is usually found is low, between -1 and 15 ºC, while in the Mediterranean, at shallow depths, the water is between 11.8 and 22.2 ºC.

As Sergi Taboada explains, «the fact that we have found Osedax for the first time ever in the Mediterranean proves that these organisms can also live in temperate latitudes in relatively shallow depths even though they are usually related with deeper waters.

«The large slip at shallow depths contributed to the tsumani that caused so much damage in Japan.

Croesus Mining NL has intersected a new high - grade gold mineralisation zone at its Fort William deposit at Binduli, where spectacular hits have been made at quite shallow depths of less than 80 metres.

Fluid inclusions within diamonds originating at shallower depths, perhaps 150 to 200 kilometers below the surface, contain a mélange of water, salt and carbonates.

«The Boxing Day earthquake of 2004 and the Japan Tohoku - oki earthquake in 2011 both ruptured to much shallower depths than expected, producing very large earthquakes and tsunami, and prompting a re-evaluation of earthquake slip potential and of the properties of shallow subduction faults,» Professor McNeill continued.

The Galapagos plume, according to the new paper, extends up into shallower depths and tracks northward and perpendicular to plate motion.

«Regarding the large fish we observed in the submersible dives, a real concern is that they could migrate to shallower depths as well and eat many of the fish there.