Sentences with phrase «zones near coastlines»

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

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In 2011, MCASB opened a satellite location at the Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara on lower State Street, near the Funk Zone neighborhood and the Cabrillo coastline.

by striking all after the first sentence and inserting the following: Extension and delineation of lateral offshore State boundaries under the provisions of this Act shall follow the lines used to determine the Adjacent Zones of coastal States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the extent such lines extend twelve nautical miles for the nearest coastline.

While dead zones are not uncommon near inhabited coastlines, where industrial runoff can trigger algae blooms that suck all of the oxygen out of the water, they're now popping up in places scientists didn't expect — in the open Atlantic Ocean.

Dead zones typically form near coastlines where human impact on the environment is most severe.

The impacts of extreme weather events and projected sea level rise are particularly significant due to high population density on and near coastlines and low - elevation zones.