Sentences with phrase «warm ocean waters dissolved»
Sediment cores the team collected by drilling in front of the current Cosgrove Ice Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean waters dissolved the vast ice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reported.
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Due to the cooling dissolved material now partially precipitates as fine particles, which are carried by the warm water to the ocean's surface.
The one - two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly under conditions already occurring off the Northern California coast, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
Because warm water holds less oxygen than cold water, oceans are expected to lose some of the dissolved gas as a consequence of climate change.
More CO2 can be dissolved in cold water than warm water, and there are a number of carbon sequestering and releasing processes involving ocean life.
Furthermore, in the absence of such warming, ocean mixing would normally be expected to be constantly refreshing the water at the ocean's surface, the place where it meets with air and dissolves CO2.
About 40 percent of the carbon enter the oceans through the waters of the Southern Ocean, around Antarctica, because CO2 dissolves more readily in cold seawater than in warmer waters.