Sentences with phrase «shallow sea off»

«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.»

A 9 - mile - wide asteroid smashed into a shallow sea off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Silverman talked about how bacteria make light inside the inch - long luminescent squid that live in the shallow waters off the Hawaiian coast (see «Aliens of the Sea,» page 76).

Cultivation - Independent and Cultivation - Dependent Analysis of Microbes in the Shallow - Sea Hydrothermal System Off Kueishantao Island, Taiwan: Unmasking Heterotrophic Bacterial Diversity and Functional Capacity — Kai Tang — Frontiers in Microbiology

Ambergris is 25 miles long and a little over a mile wide, in some places, and it is located in the clear shallow waters of the Caribbean Sea just off the tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

The shallow water right off the beach is a montage of sea grass beds and patches of sandy areas.

[69] There are shallow, muddy areas favorable for feeding whales off Shiretoko, such as at Shibetsu, the Notsuke Peninsula, Cape Ochiishi on Nemuro Peninsula, Mutsu Bay, [82] along the Tottori Sand Dunes, in the Suou - nada Sea, and Omura Bay.

The archipelago is enormous and there are some areas where soft corals and sea fans dominate, other areas with astounding hard coral formations, sea grass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand, white sand, vertical walls, seamount's, ship wrecks, planes, shallow water lagoons, and massive pinnacles.

Under the sea off the shores of Punta Cancún, Manchones Reef, and Punta Nizuc lie over 400 humanoid statues, shallow enough for snorkelers, divers, and glass - bottom boats to see.

A mom and baby bottlenose dolphin swimming side by side in shallow waters of the Red Sea off the coast of Israel.

Perhaps snorkel just off the shore, where you'll see tropical fish, sea turtles and shellfish (equipment included); go swimming in the shallow water; or just enjoy soaking up the sunshine without dealing with typical beach crowds.

In water that we can stand up in, we take our first breaths underwater and practice a few fun, easy skills in the shallow Caribbean sea with fish swimming past right off the bat.

The water off Nevis is incredibly clear and calm — particularly on the Caribbean Sea side — with depths that vary from fairly shallow to quite deep.

You will get to visit Mawun Beach in the morning followed by Lancing «Secret» Beach and finishing off at Selong Belanak where you can chill in the shallow seas for the afternoon or hire a surf board (optional) for those who have caught the bug.

There is abundant healthy hard coral along the shallow reef top and the steep drop off which is a wall covered in clumps of gorgonian sea fans and wire corals.

For reasons still a mystery, the ship went thousands of miles south off course and sunk in the shallow waters of the Java Sea off Indonesia.

Though the oil is beneath relatively shallow waters owned by the state off Alaska's North Slope, the discovery signals that the geology there, potentially onshore in the northern portion of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska and in the offshore of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas holds considerable promise.

Such sea level drops expose shallow marine ecosystems in the Pacific Islands, causing massive coral die - offs with a foul smelling tide, called taimasa (pronounced [kai» ma» sa]-RRB- by Samoans.

The University of Western Australia's Ryan Lowe led a team of researchers who studied a reef system off the coast of northwestern Australia, as well as other reef systems across the globe, in order to develop a new model for predicting how rapid sea level rise will impact daily water temperature extremes within these shallow reefs over the next century.