Sentences with phrase «shallow seas over»

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.

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Place them into a shallow, foil - lined baking tray then splash over some good olive oil, some aged balsamic, red wine vinegar, water, sea salt and cracked pepper (I don't strictly follow any quantities here... basically, you want to create enough liquid for the beetroot to initially steam, then caramelise with a sticky, delicious glaze.

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.

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.

The Russian and American scientists have never before experienced anything of such magnitude, and in addition to powerful emissions from shallow waters where over 100 readings were recorded, it is spewing up from within cracks in the Arctic ice in the open seas far from land.

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

It's as blurry and fluid as the slope of the shore, from beach to the shallows to water over your head to the open sea.

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.

Named for its characteristic reef development, this dive site features a profile with two distinct reef zones over a distance of about 800 ft.. A shallow reef extends from sea level to 40 ft and a deeper reef begins at 70 ft, extending to more than 100 ft at the wall.

1.15 - Flying out to sea over the coast line, over shallow, murky water, dominated by mud and very fine sand brought to the sea from the Belize River.

The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales prefers shallow, coastal waters and feeds over oceanic continental shelves around the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas between Alaska and Russia during the summer.

In the shallow areas be sure to keep your eyes open for peacock flounders, octopus, needlefish and turtles or drop down a little deeper over dense coral growth to see puffers, moray eels, parrot fish, lobsters, and even sea horses.

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.

Soak up stunning views of the lush coast and turquoise sea as you cruise over to a shallow lagoon for a stingray experience.

This flight gives the most unique views by flying at a low altitude over the shallow flats of the Keys, and visitors get the chance to see marine wildlife such as sea turtles, dolphins and sharks from above.

Initially, shallow circulations driven by differential radiative cooling induce a self - aggregation of the convection into a single band, as has become familiar from simulations over idealized sea surfaces.

At the risk of oversimplifying, the effects of groundwater storage can be differentiated between shallow - aquifer effects that modulate global sea level on year to year and decade to decade timeframes, versus deep aquifer effects that modulate sea level trends over centuries and millennia.

coral cover was positively correlated with the mean sea level experienced over the preceeding months... the overall picture for these shallow reefs is a positive one as they respond to increasing sea level and show rapid recovery from environmental disturbances.

Elevated pb signals are observed over deep extratropical regions (e.g., Southern Ocean basins) and shallow or semi-enclosed areas (e.g., Indonesian and Nordic seas).

Thus, to whelp in April and still remain for over shallow feeding grounds, seals are coincidentally surrounded by extensive winter sea ice.

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.

Seventy - five percent (75 %) of the sea over the shelf is shallow water, less than 50 metres deep, and consequently more immediately exposed to warming trends.

Over time, building subsea pipeline networks could become an export area for Australia in building similar networks in Asia, specifically the shallow South China Sea.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83672 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html It will add about 10 feet according to an interview with one of the scientists involved; but over a long time and fairly vague time frame, unless reinforcing processes (carbon release from melting permafrost, shallow ocean bottom warmingn in the form of methane from clathrates), a major reduction in earth's albedo from permafrost, net ice sheet, and total sea ice, continue to increasingly accelerate the process.

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.

However, studying shallow waters does not form an accurate representation of the interactions that happen over the deep sea.

What are telling observations against the hypothesis of a largely internally driven imbalance are, on the one hand, the fact the sea level variations are relentlessly positive, irrespective the phase of the PDO, and, on the second hand, the fact that the rate of warming over land is larger than it is over sea (and also that the shallow (0 - 700m) ocean layer never actually cools).

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.