Sentences with phrase «shallow seas»

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.

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.

The shallow ocean between Europe and Asia disappeared as did many of the shallow seas.

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.

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:

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.

There were shallow seas on the land, and no EVIDENCE of the existence of deep oceans anywhere on Earth.

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.

Then ancient rifting and spreading happened in the shallow seas.

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

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.

In shallow seas that dominated subtropical regions, warm salty water became dense enough to sink to the bottom.

Ocean waters around Antarctica have warmed steadily for the past 50 years, but in addition to that, the region's shallow seas are also heating up, more quickly than others.

There is evidence, reported by Peter Ward, of purple sulphur bacteria (detected via the existence of long - lived fingerprint molecules) that require oxygen free, H2S abundant conditions, with sunlight, in (therefore) shallow seas at the end Permian mass extinction and other such events.

A lot more energy is taken up by shallow seas if there is no ice floating on top, warming the sea.

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.

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

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.

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.

Obviously, Benidorm's large beaches Levante and Poniente are perfect for kids because of their shallow seas and fine sand.

You'll find gorgeous beaches just a short drive away at Marina di Grosseto and Principina, lovely long swathes of sand bathed by shallow seas.

So whether you're a hardcore diver or someone who enjoys exploring the shallow seas via snorkeling, Asia is the perfect place to enjoy pristine paradise like islands and unspoilt reefs.

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.

You will also require access to: • Heinemann «Understanding GCSE Geography for AQA Specification A» (Bowen and Palmister, 2009) text books • Wider World textbooks (old or new) • Atlases • New Basics text book - p. 136 • Life on Earth - Episode 8, Jungles, episode 5, Deserts, episode 9 - The Shallow Seas This is one of my favourite units to teach to my year 8 groups, however it could easily be adapted for Year 7 or Year 9.

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

«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,» adds co-chief scientist Gerald Dickens.

Corals are found in all of Earth's oceans, from tropical to freezing temperatures, however they only build coral reefs in warm, shallow seas in the tropics.

Mild oxygen levels in shallow seas but oxygen - poor deep oceans lasted for some 1.3 billion years during a time that has been dubbed the «Boring Billion» but eventually led to the development of mitochondria that now power multicellular planet and animal life (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010; Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News, September 29, 2009; Johnston et al, 2009; and H.D. Holland, 2006).

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.

They lived at the bottom of shallow seas and were able to bury into the muddy sediment of the seafloor.

«This research suggests that the first tetrapods that crawled onto land were, in fact, living in shallow seas.»

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.

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.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

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.

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

With a long snout and webbed, flipperlike hind feet, the extinct species was probably well adapted to swimming in shallow seas but also able to crawl onto land with its hoofed forelimbs.

On our home turf, craters that form in shallow seas or wetlands hardly make an imprint in the soggy ground and are quickly subsumed.

«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.»

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

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 CLEANERS Seagrasses, flowering plants that grow in shallow seas, can decrease bacterial contamination in the surrounding water.

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

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.

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.

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

They are pinnacle reefs, built by cyanobacteria on the shallow sea floor 543 million years ago, during a time known as the Ediacaran period.

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.