Sentences with phrase «subarctic waters»

These reefs can be found in subarctic waters in hundreds of meter depth as well as at thousand - meter depths at subtropical and tropical latitudes.

Not exact matches

pingo Hills that form across the Arctic and subarctic landscape as water collects underground, freezes and then expands to push the soil upward and out.

With around 900 residents, Manitoba's largest subarctic settlement sits stranded where the Canadian taiga meets the clear waters of the Hudson Bay.

Our beluga whale exhibit contains subarctic - temperature water as well as harbor seals.

In contrast, the Oregon zone appears to be linked to low O2 levels in upwelling subarctic bottom water; you are correct in that high effluvient outflow would also produce such effects, but that would look more like the Peruvian system.

The outgoing flow through Fram Strait carries with it large volumes of fresh water as fragmented pack ice, a flow that is strongly episodic at decadal scale and is associated with the series of so called Great Salinity Anomalies observed within the circulation of the subarctic gyre and in the Nordic seas that were discussed in the previous chapter.

In the Subarctic Pacific, these deep waters could have upwelled, rising to the sunlit surface to provide the ingredients to spark enormous blooms of phytoplankton.