Sentences with phrase «shelf regions»

The draft five - year plan that has just been released by the Trump Administration's Interior Department would open up 25 of 26 outer continental shelf regions to drilling.

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

Only the shallow and potentially methane ‐ rich [Shakhova et al., 2010] shelf regions in the Laptev Sea show significant annual variations....»

From Portugal in the southwest across Central and Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Northern China, South Korea and Japan up to Northeastern Siberia, and thence to the American Midwest and Eastern Canada, from the shelf regions of the Arctic Ocean and Northwestern Europe to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea and to the mountains of Crimea: the fossil remains of woolly mammoths have been found everywhere.

[14] Complementing the water from the canyons, some Pacific water that does not sink to the shelf region after passing through the Bering Strait also contributes to this water mass.

Water in the shelf region that begins as inflow from the Pacific passes through the narrow Bering Strait at an average rate of 0.8 Sverdrups and reaches the Chukchi Sea.

A mismatch of the timing of the phytoplankton bloom with the advection of large - bodied copepods into the shelf region would result in large exports to the benthic food chain [332].