Sentences with phrase «shallow sea»

They may be a kind of sun block, protecting corals from intense light in shallow seas.

Extensive continental regions were flooded by shallow seas ranging in water depth from a few to little more than 100 metres (330 feet).

While researchers aren't exactly sure why warm water masses are rising into shallow seas, the point is that it could be a major contributor to sea level rise.

The larger - than - Olympic - sized shallow sea water swimming pool is one of the best - kept secrets of the area.

Fishing vessels are sources of food, but the prime fishing is found in productive shallow seas near islands.

It features fine white sand, crystal - clear shallow seas (ideal for younger kids), and you can walk around the coast to find your own secluded corner.

Scientists estimate that there are hundreds of millions of tonnes of methane gas locked away beneath the Arctic permafrost, which extends from the mainland into the seabed of the relatively shallow sea of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.

Sixty - six million years ago, a vast shallow sea covers swathes of North America — the Western Interior Seaway.

«Previous observations have pointed to large methane plumes being released from the seabed in the relatively shallow sea off the northern coast of Siberia, but the latest findings were made far away from land in the deep, open ocean where the surface is usually capped by ice.»

The new findings are helping the researchers to understand how very early organisms survived despite the high level of radiation, and how life was even able to develop in shallow seas with sufficient sunlight.

From this they conclude sea cucumbers could — perhaps — help improve the resilience of shallow seas around reef system to ocean acidification — as long as these waters don't mix too much:

You will need to wade through shallow sea when disembarking, so wear either appropriate footwear, or none at all.

In the Olbia area, there are more fabulous beaches with water - based activities for the older kids, and shallow seas for the little ones to splash in.

There does appear to be very little dry land and very shallow seas in the Cambrian, but I suspect that is not what you mean by «global flood».

Moreover, sedimentary structures indicative of high - energy and shallow water conditions, e.g., ripples and cross stratification25, correlate with increased noise levels indicative of shallow sea levels at Chaohu (Supplementary Figs. 9 - 10).

Although the atoll is best known for wall diving, many shallow sea gardens inside the reef are excellent for snorkeling and diving.

Shallow seas more readily upwell nutrients enabling high rates of productivity.

It had been thought that aspects such shallow seas or rivers contributed to the similarity of the skulls of crocodilians (crocodiles and alligators) and toothed whales (dolphins, orca and relatives).

Those increases correspond to the expected global temperature rise in shallow seas within the next 50 and 100 years, respectively, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, assuming no additional efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are put in place.

In North America, a warm, shallow sea called the Western Interior Seaway extended from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, subdividing the continent into eastern and western landmasses, known as Appalachia and Laramidia, respectively.

«The discovery of past land and shallow seas now provides an explanation.

It is used in sensitive sonar systems probing shallow seas, such as the Persian Gulf.

Step back 150 million years and Spitsbergen was covered by a cool, shallow sea swarming with marine reptiles.

There was a warm, stable climate with dispersed continents surounded by vast warm and shallow seas over continental shelves that provided light, oxygen, and nutrients for life to thrive in, because intense mountain - building also increased erosion and the discharge of eroded nutrients into those seas.

This increased the area of continental shelf, produced shallow seas, thereby also expanding the diversity of environmental niches in which animals could specialize and speciate.

The dolomite in which the caves formed started out as coral reefs growing in a worm shallow sea about 2.3 billion years ago.

You can dive vertical walls and sand slopes; steel and wooden shipwrecks; limestone shorelines and black, volcanic outcrops; peaceful bays and ripping currents; deep, coral - covered ridges, shallow sea grass beds and big bommies, as well as both shore and boat diving.

The Arctic's presently bountiful shallow seas were left high and dry and passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean was completely blocked by the resultant Beringia land bridge.

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.

When many modern families of animals developed in a hot greenhouse world in which a warm ocean and land filled most of earths surface with fertile shallow seas and vast tropical jungles.

The world's shallow seas probably increase the proportion of surface water and thus make my 0.4 C figure an underestimate, so perhaps something between 0.5 - 1 degree might more accurate.

With regards to the report in the Siberian Times a week and a half ago about steadily increasing rates of sub-seafloor methane from the Laptev Sea (and surely the other shallow seas off Siberia), how unsurprising that the mainstream media hasn't even touched this life - altering information.

Euan Nisbet, a geologist at the University of London, points out that the Arctic, where the warming is expected to be strongest, is vulnerable — both on land and in shallow seas there are hydrates that are stabilized mostly by low temperatures rather than by high pressures.

Recent missions to Mars have provided strong evidence that shallow seas of liquid water once existed on the Red Planet — suggesting that Mars might once have been hospitable to life.

Villa holidays are family - friendly, especially so for those with small children, and Tawantok Beach Villas — with its predominantly ground - floor layout, wide lawned gardens and beautiful beach with warm shallow sea — is a safe, happy, relaxing environment for kids and their parents.

This town is abuzz with a welcoming spirit and plenty to keep its visitors entertained all year round, from its streets filled with restaurants, bars and shops, to its long golden beach bordered by shallow sea waters.

Second, these microorganisms must get trapped in silt, which can happen wherever giant rivers emptied into shallow seas.

Kooteninchela deppi lived in very shallow seas, similar to modern coastal environments, off the cost of British Columbia in Canada, which was situated much closer to the equator 500 million years ago.

Greens think it is «sustainable» to uglify scenic hills with whining wind towers, power poles, transmission lines and access roads, and to clutter pleasant estuaries and shallow seas with more bird - slicing turbines.

While most Triassic marine reptiles lived in shallow seas, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs were strong swimmers that lived in the open seas and gave birth to live young.