Sentences with phrase «shallow regions»

The water warms up pretty quick at shallow regions.

Postscript: Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, analyzing seabed currents and mud movement after the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, have concluded that the underwater turbulence from hurricanes could be severe enough to cause mudslides and possibly imperil pipelines on the seafloor in shallow regions of the Gulf of Mexico.

As a result, they must extrapolate deep rock clues from shallow region data.

The resulting warming is spatially inhomogeneous, with the strongest impact on shallow regions affected by Atlantic inflow.

This is similar to the bacteria found in oil reservoirs and contaminated soil, which could mean that the bacteria migrated down from shallower regions rather than evolving inside the crust, the team say (PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0015399).

Then if a warming trend continues, overtime the oceans get warm enough and release continental margin located hydrates from shallow regions.

The shallowest region.

Grey whales feed on the seafloor at depths of up to 50 metres, and rely heavily on the shallow regions in Alaska's Bering Sea for food.

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

In some parts of the Arctic Ocean, the shallow regions near continents may be one of the settings where methane hydrates are breaking down now due to warming processes over the past 15,000 years.

Large red bait pods are found in the shallower regions, with...