Sentences with phrase «shallow sea of»

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.

The eastern side of the peninsula warms up quickly as the shallow Sea of Cortez warms.

A faith that is uninformed or uninspired by the images, metaphors, symbols, and stories of God's Word is in danger of becoming unimaginative and unanchored, weakened by an overreliance on reason, adrift on a shallow sea of facts and propositions.

These European reptiles inhabited warm, shallow seas of the continent, but «they were not as agile in this environment as today's sea turtles, who are able to cover very large distances and cross seas and even oceans,» the expert explains.

Designed specifically to glide through the shallow seas of the South Pacific, The Gauguin is the flagship of Paul Gauguin Cruises and a small - ship cruiser's dream.

Launch your kayak from the sandy shoreline into the gentle and shallow seas of the Pacific.

Not exact matches

Imagine ourselves back some four billion years ago on this planet facing two scenarios: on one side, a vast turbulence, terrific volcanoes belching forth from the inexhaustible fires of the earth's core; on the other side the beginnings of living cells, microscopic, invisible along the water's edge of some shallow sea, quiet, vital.

Grind plantain chips into a fine powder in the food processor and then transfer them to one shallow bowl with remaining 1/2 tsp sea salt, then pour the remaining 1/4 cup of olive oil in a second shallow bowl.

To make the salad add 2 cups of bagged spinach into a shallow bowl, thinly slice 1 small red onion and add to bowl, thinly slice 1 ripe tomato and add to the bowl, crumble about 4 ounces of goat cheese on top and toss in 10 walnuts, season everything with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper and drizzle in the honey mustard vinaigrette

Make chocolate bark: Pour leftover chocolate into a shallow puddle on parchment or wax paper and sprinkle with chopped nuts, dried fruits, crushed candies, crumbled cookie chunks, a pinch of sea salt flakes, etc..

A delish recipe from a great chef and friend of «Culley's», Dan Pearson (Egg & Spoon Pop Up Restaurants) INGREDIENTS Shucked Clevedon oysters Culleys Smoked Hickory Sauce Streaky bacon White onion Sea salt METHODGrill bacon until crisp then cool and drain on paper towel.Slice white onion, roll in seasoned flour and shallow fry in oil until crisp.

The shrimp chips at Pépé le Moko, which taste ever - so - pleasantly of the sea, are fried and then sprinkled with the Japanese spice mixture togarashi, and served on an easy access shallow platter with some paper underneath and a lemon wedge on the side.

Also known as sea asparagus, due to its emerald green stalks reminiscent of asparagus, samphire grows abundantly in the marshy shallows and salty mudflats of North Western Europe.

You could call it that, all right, when you saw how the tides clashed with the wind over the shallow reefs round Blasket, and the long - toothed rocks came clear out with the sea running back off them, and the black sleek heads of the brave seals bobbing in the swells.

He has suffered in the slap - chop of the shallow North Sea, and he has wandered lost north of Scotland in The Bore off Mull Head.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

The canal is a manatee - free zone, but as we veer into Mosquito Lagoon, where blue herons stalk fish in the shallows and black - headed gulls shriek overhead, I wonder if we will spot one of the elusive sea cows.

Sea level fell substantially, wiping out much of the shallow - water habitat surrounding major landmasses.

The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead Ssea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead SeaSea.

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.

The shallow, salty seas spotted in 2004 evaporated from scientists» view of early Mars within a few years, but even so, the past decade's half - dozen martian missions have finally delivered.

The huge plant - eater inhabited Laramidia, a landmass formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America, isolating western and eastern portions for millions of years during the Late Cretaceous Period.

All of the limestone in the quarry formed in a shallow sea basin, as evidenced by the large number of marine fossils such as snails, mussels and sea urchins.

But when Nick Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC modelled Pacific feeding grounds during peak glaciation, he found that very little of the north Pacific was shallow enough for feeding: sea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridsea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridSea was a land bridge.

He spotted the glassy shards of ancient diatom shells — the remains of microscopic phytoplankton that lived here at warmer times in the past, when a shallow sea covered much of West Antarctica.

In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades.

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.

In a paper in the current issue of Geology, Mark Sephton of Imperial College London and his colleagues reveal that sedimentary rocks from that period — when they were on the bottom of a shallow sea — contain a pulse, or unusually elevated levels of organic material from soil and plants.

Above the 670, the mantle churned slowly like a very shallow pot of boiling water, delivering heat and rock at mid-ocean ridges to make new crust and cool the interior and accepting cold sinking slabs of old plate at deep - sea trenches.

For example, Jakarta's consumption of groundwater for industry and domestic use has been so high that sea water has infiltrated shallow wells as far as 10 kilometres inland.

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.

But with climate change, the WAP is experiencing rapid regional warming, with fewer days each year of fast ice — letting the icebergs into the shallows more often, where they carve huge gashes through the habitat of the colorful, tentacled invertebrate animals carpeting the sea floor.

At this point astrochemists are still testing the shallow waters in the great sea of molecules out there in space.

Plankton, crustaceans and fish, all food for wildlife, reproduce at the dynamic edge of the sea ice, where it floats over shallow near - shore waters.

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.

Natural methane hydrates were first discovered by Russian scientists in the late 1960s in Siberian permafrost — where the ground is so cold that hydrates can form at shallower depths and at lower pressures than under the sea — and then, in the 1970s, at the bottom of the Black Ssea — and then, in the 1970s, at the bottom of the Black SeaSea.

According to Richard L. Haedrich, an ichthyologist writing in a recent issue of Natural History, catch quotas for deep - sea fishes were set «essentially by guesswork, relying on... knowledge of shallow - water species.

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

«The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past.»

In the warm, shallow waters of the Caribbean Sea, especially in the coral reefs around Cuba, lives a species of sea anemone called Stichodactyla helianthSea, especially in the coral reefs around Cuba, lives a species of sea anemone called Stichodactyla helianthsea anemone called Stichodactyla helianthus.

As the island rose upward out of the sea, volcanoes formed along its spine, with basins of shallow water between them.

In this NASA satellite image from 2009, it is possible to see how the many islands of the Bahamas are actually the highest points of distinct areas where the sea is shallow and turquoise.

«The rocks were laid down in a delta or lagoon where a large river met the Zechstein Sea, a shallow sea that covered much of Europe at the time,» says SeldSea, a shallow sea that covered much of Europe at the time,» says Seldsea that covered much of Europe at the time,» says Selden.

Some 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Archaeopteryx — the oldest bird species yet discovered — inhabited a subtropical environment characterized by reef islands and lagoons set in a shallow sea that was part of the primordial Mediterranean.

No plants grew on the few areas of land that poked above a hot, shallow, Earth - enveloping sea.

In 1991, the IMO adopted guidelines which recommend that ships should avoid taking on ballast in shallow areas and during toxic blooms of marine algae; keep accurate records of where and when ballast is loaded; exchange ballast water at sea, where toxic organisms are rare; and discharge sediments into approved areas at the port of destination («End of the line for deadly stowaways», New Scientist, 24 October 1992).

Through phylogenetic analysis, the research team discovered that modern deep - sea mussels are the descendants of shallow - water mussels, and their ancestors migrated to the deep sea approximately 110 million years ago, providing evidence to support a hypothesis that their ancestors survived through an extinction event during the global anoxia period associated with the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum which occurred around 57 million years ago.

Moreover, finding a self - contained lake of carbon dioxide at a relatively shallow 4,600 feet below sea level «is highly suggestive that if you went down a further 4,900 feet you could actually inject liquid CO2 and it would be quite stable,» says Ken Nealson, a geobiologist at the University of Southern California.

Rocks in Greenland that have been preserved for 3.7 billion years show evidence of microbes living in a shallow sea on early Earth

Created nearly 400 million years ago on the surface of a shallow inland sea, the Marcellus Shale formed as tectonic plates pushed up the landmasses that created the Appalachian and Catskill mountain ranges and buried the ancient sea under a layer of rock almost two miles thick.