Sentences with phrase «shallow seas near»

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

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.

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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.

If an area is near the ocean shore, the sea depth is fairly shallow.

Researchers tracked a shallow - water, near - shore species used for food: sea cucumbers.

In a road cut near the Missouri River in central South Dakota, paleontologists uncovered signs of a fight to the death waged 73 million years ago in a shallow sea that covered much of what is now the Great Plains.

They were found lying down in shallow sea, which, according to researchers, could provide the first evidence of an environment where early life might have thrived near the start of Earth's geological record.

Works added to the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum during 2010 included a 2009 16 mm film, Beau Geste, by Morocco - based Yto Barrada, a 2009 slide - projection installation, In the Near Future, by New York — based Sharon Hayes, a 19 - channel digital video, The Torn First Pages, 2004 — 8, by Indian artist Amar Kanwar, the 2006 interactive piece This Progress by German artist Tino Sehgal and the 2010 sound installation The Shallow Sea by Scottish artist Susan Philipsz.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»