As the oceans and ground warm up, they warm the air next to them, and this air warms the air a little higher up and so on. |
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Carbon returns to the hydrosphere when carbon dioxide dissolves in the oceans, as well as in lakes and other bodies of water. |
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Each apartment has oceans of storage, including a walk-in hallway cupboard. |
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The deeps of the Pacific, the Atlantic, and Indian Oceans all join the circumpolar deeps of the southern oceans. |
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Rather, the assault on, and defense of, shipping has abandoned the open oceans and moved into coastal waters and the narrow seas. |
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Indiscriminate fishing practices such as long lining and purse seining are stripping the oceans clean of sea life. |
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Phestilla sibogae occurs across the tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, probably from Panama to Africa, where it is restricted to coral reefs. |
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It is hard to imagine what makes people desperate enough to leave their country to prowl the oceans in unseaworthy boats. |
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Subjects now range far beyond the Great Lakes, from piracy on the high seas to the environmental health of our oceans. |
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A container, the sort used to ship cargo across oceans and aboard trains, became Vienna's emblem last summer. |
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In the oceans, characteristic fringing reefs develop around the volcanic islands surmounting hot spots, as in Hawaii, or the mid-oceanic ridges. |
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Huge deposits of solid salt, mostly sodium chloride, and salts dissolved in the oceans are vast reservoirs of chloride compounds. |
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They are explorers and pioneers in the great tradition like Columbus and Cook who sailed across the oceans. |
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No plague of locusts descends, the oceans don't boil over with frogs, and the apocalypse isn't ushered in because of our discovery. |
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In particular, areas between reserves were not as inhospitable to species in the reserves as oceans were to insular species. |
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Thus, the net supply of riverine solids to the deep open oceans is not significantly greater than that from aeolian transport. |
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The insects hitch rides across oceans in wooden crates and other solid wood materials used in shipping, he explains. |
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Zones of minimum upwelling and, therefore, productivity, occur in the central regions of the oceans known as the gyres. |
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There are French pidgins and Creoles in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian and Pacific oceans. |
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South-western zephyr, far from oceans here, whispers lazily of warm Gulf Stream sunfish. |
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In fact, crinoids, holothurians, and ophiuroids rule the floor of the deep oceans at depths below 500 metres. |
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Albatrosses fall prey to longlines, baited hooks stretched for miles across the oceans by commercial fishing fleets. |
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Gene-disrupting pesticide residues have penetrated the livers of animals at the poles of the planet and in the depths of the oceans. |
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The solution is entombment in the deep sediments of abyssal plains in the oceans that now cover 71 percent of the planet. |
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It features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages. |
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Go to the bottom of the oceans, not Mars, and set up operations to clean up the oceans and rebuild some of the manmade dead zones in the seas. |
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So are corals and shellfish, which make calcium carbonates that end up in the bottoms of oceans. |
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So it is only logical to practise oceans of exercises to master the tricks of gaining high marks. |
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It could be measured out in drams, oceans, mountains, worlds, whatever quantum the thought deserved. |
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The man-of-war fish is a driftfish found in all tropical and subtropical oceans of the world. |
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They, and others since them, have been willing to cross oceans in search of liberty. |
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This area was one of the most remote and least traveled expanses of the world oceans. |
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If the world's oceans warm up, it's also possible that the upper atmosphere will also warm up. |
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At that point, the oceans ceased to be geographical barriers, and like the smaller seas before them opened up into highways. |
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Scientists say some bugs have traveled hundreds of miles across calm tropical oceans. |
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The find is enormously significant because it is the earliest evidence of a creature living on dry land rather than in the oceans. |
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If all the water of the oceans became ink, it will not be enough to write the Greatness of Allah. |
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Migratory birds unerringly cross countries, continents, and even oceans by using magnetic fields to navigate. |
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She removed her hand from his grasp quickly and kept her eyes down as they navigated through the oceans of people. |
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Found in all tropical and temperate oceans, the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish, eats mainly jellyfish. |
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Countries in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres continue to treat the world's rivers, seas and oceans as dumping grounds. |
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They can be found in oceans, estuaries, freshwater streams, lagoons, lakes, shallow offshore waters and coastlines. |
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Whether bobbing about on a dinghy or crossing the oceans on a Tall Ship, one can learn the mechanics of piloting and navigating. |
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The California gold rush in the 1840s renewed interest in travel between the oceans. |
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Flowing water may have deposited sand and silt in the bottoms of lakebeds or oceans. |
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The force of a monsoon is driven by the continental land mass being hotter than the surrounding oceans. |
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The real treasures which lie beneath our oceans are the time-capsules of the past. |
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The skeletons of dead chromists accumulate on the floor of lakes and oceans, where they may become thick deposits of silica or calcium carbonate. |
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Destination spas are located in beautiful mountains and deserts as well as by lakes and oceans. |
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Blue whales, found in all the oceans of the world, are true leviathans, stretching as long as 100 feet and weighing as much as 200 tons. |
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The margins of other Early Palaeozoic oceans had their own distinct closure histories and are thus excluded from our Caledonian orogen. |
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This melting of the ice caps causes an influx of fresh water into the salt water of the world's oceans. |
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The stalked forms inhabit the deep oceans, while stalkless forms are commonly found in shallower depths. |
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The ocean biome, for example, is made up of all the oceans on Earth. The climate, type of soil, and animals are all part of a biome. |
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The deepest parts of the oceans, the elongate deep-sea trenches, were located on the oceanward side of these arcs. |
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For centuries, Africans and their descendants have crossed oceans and lands to put their unique stamp on the history of the Western Hemisphere. |
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Clearly we still have a ways to go before oceans and marine wildlife receive the same level of attention afforded to terrestrial ecosystems. |
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The oceans are abundant in water but freshwater is diminishing at an alarming rate. |
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Rows of teeth exposed between the great jaws that turned the oceans into a sea of blood. |
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Behind him he saw the Rockies enfold the city, before him its waters ran out into the oceans of the world. |
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It is not in the driftnet fishermen's interest to exploit or misuse our oceans resources. |
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Living in the world's warmer oceans, it feeds on plankton and is harmless to humans. |
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James was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as a radioman aboard the U.S.S. Troilus. |
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Most of the world's oxygen is produced by the planctum in the great oceans. |
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This acreage includes mountains, deserts, prairies, lakes, oceans, forests, rangelands, national parks, and wildlife refuges. |
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Each of those sections commences with an overview of the relevant oceans, oceanography, bathymetry, and meteorology. |
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Gurnards, flatheads, scorpionfishes, greenlings, and sculpins live in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. |
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Most biospheric carbon is already in the oceans anyway, and they can take a good deal more. |
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But even giant waves moving at the speed of jet airliners still take hours to cross great oceans. |
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Conservationists say unregulated fisheries in the southern oceans are endangering the albatross. |
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Irrigation, agricultural and urban run-off has caused dead zones in many rivers and lakes, and in some oceans. |
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Life seems to have originated in the primordial oceans that covered the Earth four billion years ago. |
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They are found in the tropical and subtropical waters of oceans around the world. |
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This image marks a time in history not only for Yes, but a passage in the oceans of time. |
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A massive oceanarium at Parque das Nacoes pays homage to the oceans crossed and charted by the Portuguese during the heyday of their empire. |
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A huge oceanarium at Parque das Nacoes pays homage to the oceans which were crossed and charted repeatedly by the Portuguese. |
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Sometimes primitive or exotic art is not far away across oceans, but within our own nation. |
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The latter has a thick atmosphere containing methane, and, it is thought, oceans and lakes containing hydrocarbons. |
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Melting glaciers add fresh water to the oceans and speed the seaward movement of ice and an influx of fresh water into the ocean. |
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There is an abundance of energy waiting to be harvested from oceans around the world. |
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Several varieties of tombolos have been recognized in all parts of the globe, linking islands along the edges of lakes as well as oceans. |
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One of the few insects to conquer the oceans, some intrepid species venture hundreds of miles across becalmed tropical seas. |
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Clumsy as were their galliots, they were among the first to brave the mysterious terrors of unknown seas and oceans. |
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The experience of war fought across two oceans and three continents turned it into a military hegemon of the first order. |
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At the side of the Earth nearest the Moon the oceans bulge upwards due to its pull. |
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Driven by forces such as wind, tides, and gravity, currents keep our oceans in constant motion. |
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Miller and Turner speculate the shark may have resembled an angel shark, a ray-like bottom-dweller found in most temperate and tropical oceans. |
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In the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans, hurricanes and tropical storms form and strike during a specific time of year, not year-round. |
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Are we less than the men who left safe harbors and shouldered through cold oceans? |
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One lineage of stereospondyls, the Trematosauridae, actually took up a life in the oceans, the only stem tetrapods ever to have done so. |
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The sky was black as night and the waves of flames from the oceans licked at the sandy shores. |
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During interglacial periods the ice caps melt and return the isotopically light water to the oceans, where it mixes rapidly. |
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Can we rise to the challenge of cleaning up the world's oceans and protecting marine biodiversity? |
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Many huge currents of water move through the oceans often aided by the winds. |
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The world's most biologically diverse marine ecosystems, coral reefs are critical to the health of the oceans. |
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A chance to go afloat on a working scientific research vessel to learn how the oceans work is on offer this half-term. |
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Most high-speed catamarans are built to outmuscle the oceans, but Team Phillips's razor-thin bows slice smoothly through waves. |
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Air power was not operationally constrained by geographic barriers like mountains, rivers or oceans. |
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Soon millions of people were conversing across the oceans, often without knowing it. |
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Ever since wooden ships were felled by storms at sea or robbed by pirates, successful businesses risked coming to grief crossing oceans. |
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This amazing crag sits right on the oceans edge and features some crazy web-like pockets. |
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The stars serenely encased the green-and-brown planet in their milky twinkle, lighting up all the oceans with a crystal glow, a beautiful shine. |
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Lie on a white sand beach soaking up the sun during the day and go for long moonlit walks along the oceans edge at night. |
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Although mid-ocean ridges appear at first sight to be continuous features within the oceans, on closer inspection this is clearly not so. |
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Their adventure has seen them scale high peaks, sail across oceans and cycle across open wilderness and deserts. |
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She took on not only the might of the oceans, but also the might of reality, and has triumphed gloriously over both. |
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Some of the salt in the oceans comes from undersea volcanoes and hydrothermal vents. |
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But as the marine conservation crisis in the oceans deepens we're running out of time. |
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Coral reefs consist primarily of tiny plant-like animals that thrive in the clean, clear water and sunlight found mostly in tropical oceans. |
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A few other carnivores, such as the sea otter, are also specialized for life in the oceans. |
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Beneath the oceans, the crust varies little in thickness, generally extending only to about 5 km. |
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The earth's crust varies greatly in thickness, the least beneath the oceans, the most under the continental land masses. |
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Continental displacements led to changes in the configurations of the oceans, and seaways opened and closed. |
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Many thousands of cnidarian species live in the world's oceans, from the tropics to the poles, from the surface to the bottom. |
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By rights, there ought to be a desert up here, so far from the oceans of the flatwater world. |
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Wintertime often brings thoughts of tropical getaways, with warm oceans and colorful coral reefs not far from shore. |
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In 1846 he maintained that the continents and oceans had never changed places and that the Earth's general framework was essentially stable. |
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This permits the craft to explore about 99 percent of sea floors in the oceans of the world. |
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I found health and happiness living free in the sailorly life on unpolluted oceans, and you can, too. |
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We are cutting down too many trees, overfishing the oceans, polluting the air, exhausting the soil. |
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There are a lot of other nations busily, and greedily, assisting them in stripping the oceans. |
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The Epinephelinae serranids are comprised of about 159 species in 15 genera and are represented in all oceans. |
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A stronger greenhouse effect will probably warm the oceans and partially melt glaciers and other ice, increasing sea levels. |
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Four hundred million years ago armor-plated fishes, the placoderms, swam along the sandy floor of oceans that once covered much of Australia. |
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The warming of the oceans from beneath has caused the depths of the ice caps to decrease, allowing more sunlight to reach the ocean beneath. |
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Virtually all life in the world's oceans is directly or indirectly dependent on one-celled plants called phytoplankton. |
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It is possible that the increase in carbon dioxide will saturate the earth's oceans, causing damage to the ozone layer. |
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Water coursed through the empty gullies, filling oceans, creating islands, lapping up on sand and rocks, and hosting a new swarm of creatures. |
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Further surveys in the oceans from Antarctica to Hawaii revealed that variants of the photoprotein exist virtually everywhere, in varying colors. |
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Even with this global effort, only 40 percent of the world's oceans have been surveyed to hydrographic standards. |
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In the trickle-down theory of the economy of our oceans, the species which live highest have the best chance of biological productivity. |
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Mountain ranges and oceans both provide barriers for the migration of plants. |
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One of the new studies finds that the increase in carbon dioxide is also having a previously unpredicted impact in acidifying the world's oceans. |
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He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere. |
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The mostly free-living Turbellaria are found in the oceans, in fresh water, and in moist terrestrial habitats, and a few are parasitic. |
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The biggest impacts would have swathed our globe in incandescent rock vapor, boiling the oceans dry and sterilizing the surface worldwide. |
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I watch the birds flying past in the sky, I listen to the sound of the oceans coming from the open windows. |
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Sometimes thousands of miles and a few oceans kept them from collaborating on large-scale projects, but they remained in contact. |
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Flying to or from Hawaii had, by 1940, become the ultra-fashionable way to traverse oceans. |
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Huge reserves of fossil fuels remain to be even considered, let alone tapped, eg gas hydrates under the oceans. |
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It explained that the influx of massive quantities of freshwater into the polar oceans could slow down, or even halt, the global thermohaline circulation. |
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They're found in all of the oceans of the world, but they gravitate towards the waters of the Arctics, where the food is plentiful and humans are rare. |
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The QE2 is a regular visitor and some of the Silversea ships, said to be the most expensive cruise ships sailing the oceans, make Dubai a regular port of call. |
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Nobody should wish it any harm because, among others, its ship sails the oceans protecting whales and dolphins, seals and fish from over-exploitation. |
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Manta rays are apparently declining in the Caribbean and in other tropical regions of the world's oceans, in part because they are captured for shark bait. |
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With more than six billion people now inhabiting the planet, will we ever again see a time when whales fill the seas and the oceans teem with life? |
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If the spout was air and not water, then there was no necessary reason for it to be confined to seas and oceans. |
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Scientists know that carbon dioxide is warming the atmosphere, which in turn is causing sea level to rise, and that the CO 2 absorbed by the oceans is acidifying the water. |
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Conditions will range from the calms and energy-sapping heat of the northern hemisphere to the icebergs, storms and monumental seas of the southern oceans. |
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Later, in the midcentury, as he put his hand to the defense of a new kind of sea science, he reached for the chronometer as a way to make sense of the oceans. |
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Anne Barry, placed statuesquely on a moving platform, became a living geological formation as video footage of oceans and flowing lava were projected onto her enormous dress. |
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These waters are transported into the barrier layer, or thermocline, of the more northern oceans, where the nutrients are then absorbed by phytoplankton at the surface. |
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The average depth of the major oceans, beyond the continental shelves, is between 12,000 to 20,000 feet, while some trenches are as deep or deeper than Mt. Everest is high. |
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Most get flushed down the toilet, and eventually end up in the oceans. |
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We had a bloom a couple of years ago in Jervis Bay, NSW so we know that they can be very abundant and in the oceans they're actually the major sink for carbon dioxide. |
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With climate changes now near the point of no return, big sections of the Artic and Antarctic ice floes are breaking off, drifting into the oceans and melting. |
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But the oceans are out of sight, out of mind to all but a few of us. |
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The weathering of calcium silicate rocks over millions of years converted the insoluble calcium silicate into soluble calcium salts, which were carried to the oceans. |
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A number of moons in the solar system have global oceans beneath surfaces of solid ice or ice mixed with other materials. |
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And yet scientists have a good idea of when the Earth formed, how quickly the iron core settled to the center of the planet, when oceans began to appear, and so on. |
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Dolphins leap through the massive oceans in seeming synchronization. |
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The presence of ice sheets, together with the development of sea ice in the polar oceans, also resulted in an increase in meridional temperature gradients. |
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Marine geochemists can exploit the distributions of these tracers to investigate physical, chemical, and biological processes operating in the world's oceans. |
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When they seep into the water table, and into rivers, lakes, and oceans, PCBs bioaccumulate, moving up the food chain from the phytoplankton to the zooplankton to the fish. |
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Oxygen is one of several vital elements that are constantly consumed and recycled by processes involving the biosphere, the Earth's rocks and volcanoes, and the oceans. |
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More than six years later, the oceans have continued their rise and the planet is ever warmer. |
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The living oceans are becoming as vacant as a clear-cut forest. |
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Jason's onboard altimeter precisely maps the surface height of 95 percent of Earth's ice-free oceans every 10 days to an accuracy of about 1.33 inches. |
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When they noticed that many shallow earthquakes came from under it, they searched seismograph records for similar earthquake centers in unsounded parts of the oceans. |
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The water is evened out all over the earth's oceans, producing neap tides. |
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I think of fuel and oil being discharged into rivers and oceans. |
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The rise of factory farms, growing human populations along the coast, and discharge of garbage into the oceans are some of the other threats to sea turtles. |
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Some parts of the gulf are five times more saline than open oceans. |
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Because 40 percent of the oceans are classified as subtropical gyres, a fourth of the planet's surface area has become an accumulator of floating plastic debris. |
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The events it recounts are set in the Cold War when the space race dominated the world's media and another race for supremacy dominated the oceans. |
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Only instead of traveling in boats to cross the oceans and reach far away lands they use spaceships to reach far away planets and meet strange cultures. |
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Though square-rigged sailing ships have just about vanished from our oceans, they have left us present-day sailors with a racial memory of grandeur, power, and beauty. |
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Where this area lies over the oceans, it is called the doldrums. |
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It turns out that, by 2020, there will be 7.25 million tons of extractible plastic in the oceans, most of it floating relatively close to the surface. |
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The southern polar zone includes Antarctica and the surrounding icy oceans, while the northern polar zone includes regions of Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, and the frozen Arctic Ocean. |
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Telegraph lines were often built alongside the railways, and steamships laid the submarine cables that took the telegraph network across the seas and oceans. |
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The presence of ice on the continents and pack ice on the oceans would inhibit both silicate weathering and photosynthesis, which are the two major sinks for CO 2 at present. |
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Its location at the southern tip of Africa gives South Africa a strategic position at a major choke point in the Cape Sea Route linking the Indian and South Atlantic oceans. |
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It is one spore in a larger pox, the plundering of oceans worldwide. |
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A longer-term effect would be if the disintegration led to a meltdown of the grounded West Antarctic ice sheet, which would cause the world's oceans to rise by up to 5 metres. |
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Major storm events strike harder and more often, because warming oceans create conditions for fiercer hurricanes. |
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Lottiid and especially fissurelid limpets, neither of which feed predominately on macroalgae, also have given rise to large-bodied taxa in certain temperate oceans. |
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We confidently rely on its theory and its data to send people to the moon, to lob missiles across oceans and to design thrill rides for amusement parks. |
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As a Pisces, your planetary ruler is Neptune, god of the oceans. |
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As the planet rotates, the water in the oceans moves about and serves to brake the spin of the planet. |
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The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans. |
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The Early Earth, scientists believe, was subjected to a bombardment by comets and asteroids, and heated to such a degree that its primordial oceans evaporated. |
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Though tuna migrate across oceans, trying to find them there is not the usual approach. |
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Comb jellies, just globes of shimmering film in today's oceans, may have had rigid skeletons and hard plates millions of years ago. |
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However, productive wild fisheries also exist in open oceans, particularly by seamounts, and inland in lakes and rivers. |
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Stonefish is found in the coastal regions of Indo-Pacific oceans as well as off the coast of Florida and in the Caribbean. |
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Most of the water is then transported to lower elevations by river systems and usually returned to the oceans or deposited into lakes. |
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Earth's atmosphere and oceans were formed by volcanic activity and outgassing that included water vapor. |
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The origin of the world's oceans was condensation augmented by water and ice delivered by asteroids, protoplanets, and comets. |
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In geodesy, the exact shape that Earth's oceans would adopt in the absence of land and perturbations such as tides and winds is called the geoid. |
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The oceans are also a reservoir of dissolved atmospheric gases, which are essential for the survival of many aquatic life forms. |
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Sea water has an important influence on the world's climate, with the oceans acting as a large heat reservoir. |
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Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of local sea levels caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans. |
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The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. |
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Because of its relative isolation from other oceans, the Arctic Ocean has a uniquely complex system of water flow. |
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The Indian Ocean's relatively calmer waters opened the areas bordering it to trade earlier than the Atlantic or Pacific oceans. |
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All international agreements regarding the world's oceans apply to the Southern Ocean. |
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As exploration ignited both popular and scientific interest in the polar regions and Africa, so too did the mysteries of the unexplored oceans. |
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The splitting also created two new oceans, the Iapetus Ocean and Paleoasian Ocean. |
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In the post Pangaea time period, the reconfiguration of continents and oceans has changed the climate of many areas. |
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When Pangaea separated, the reorganization of the continents changed the function of the oceans and seaways. |
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The restructuring of the continents, changed and altered the distribution of warmth and coolness of the oceans. |
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Due to the North Atlantic drift, the Barents Sea has a high biological production compared to other oceans of similar latitude. |
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This incident implied an open connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
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The joining of the two great oceans started the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and cooled the continent significantly. |
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Although the ridge system runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the ridge is located away from the center of other oceans. |
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An evolution in trench morphology can be expected, as oceans close and continents converge. |
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Extensive mixing therefore takes place between the ocean basins, reducing differences between them and making the Earth's oceans a global system. |
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Thermohaline circulation of the world's oceans involves the flow of warm surface waters from the southern hemisphere into the North Atlantic. |
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This is due to the oxidation of deteriorating organic content in the rest of the deep oceans. |
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The westward surface flow at the equator in both oceans is part of the South Equatorial Current. |
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Other approaches have been suggested over time, including cooling the water under a tropical cyclone by towing icebergs into the tropical oceans. |
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This is followed by passive margin environments, while seafloor spreading continues and the oceans grow. |
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However the meeting of the oceans here also fuels the nutrient cycle for marine life, making it one of the best fishing grounds in South Africa. |
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As water accumulated in glaciers, the volume of water in the oceans correspondingly decreased, resulting in lowering of the eustatic sea level. |
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It was the sea that was separated from authority, and thus was the pirate who could attack those who entered the oceans. |
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Future environmental impact studies should address the impact on disruption and release of methane clathrate deposits in the deep oceans. |
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Another issue is that removing marine debris from our oceans can potentially cause more harm than good. |
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Upwelling and downwelling areas in the oceans are areas where significant vertical movement of ocean water is observed. |
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Human activity may represent the greatest threat to coral reefs living in Earth's oceans. |
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It has a circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere and is found in both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific oceans. |
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Most of these species migrate back and forth across open oceans, rarely venturing over continental shelves. |
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Lanternfish also account for much of the biomass responsible for the deep scattering layer of the world's oceans. |
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The warming eventually made the deep oceans oxygen-free, allowing sulfur bacteria to emerge from the muds. |
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Large ocean predators, such as salmon and tuna, can migrate thousands of kilometres, crossing oceans. |
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Synthetic nets are resistant to rot or breakdown, therefore ghost nets fish indefinitely in the oceans. |
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Most scientists believed that the oceans were so vast that they had unlimited ability to dilute, and thus render pollution harmless. |
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Discharge of cargo residues from bulk carriers can pollute ports, waterways, and oceans. |
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These locations allow the marshes to absorb the excess nutrients from the water running through them before they reach the oceans and estuaries. |
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Sei whales live in all oceans, although rarely in polar or tropical waters. |
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Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice. |
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Ignoring the oceans, Russia built its Russian Empire through conquest by land in Eastern Europe, and Asia. |
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For some people, it is this building of colonies across oceans that differentiates colonialism from other types of expansionism. |
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The Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Austrian Empire existed at the same time as the above empires, but did not expand over oceans. |
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In Luo's work, Admiral Zheng He sailed the oceans in search for a sacred imperial seal to restore harmony in the Middle Kingdom. |
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Such charts were later drafted for coastal resources in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. |
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The strait is the most important natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
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Between 1847 and 1849, Matthew Fontaine Maury collected enough information to create wind and current charts for the world's oceans. |
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Puerto Rico experiences the Atlantic hurricane season, similar to the remainder of the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic oceans. |
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The Sandhills are remnants of coastal dunes from a time when the land was sunken or the oceans were higher. |
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The oceans are normally a natural carbon sink, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. |
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The Middle East, India and China are all ringed by mountains and oceans but, once past these outer barriers, are nearly flat. |
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Extratropical cyclones tend to form east of climatological trough positions aloft near the east coast of continents, or west side of oceans. |
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Stromatolites are the predominant features of carbonate rocks formed in Precambrian oceans. |
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Consumerism breeds the dystopic world of runaway pollution, of vast floating continents of garbage adrift in our oceans. |
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Wild fisheries exist primarily in the oceans, and particularly around coasts and continental shelves. |
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The result is increasing acidification of the oceans, a change that is destroying coral reefs and degrading the marine food chain. |
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Indian Ocean warming is the largest among the tropical oceans, and about 3 times faster than the warming observed in the Pacific. |
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The marine animals of Oligocene oceans resembled today's fauna, such as the bivalves. |
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This was the first time a vessel, manned or unmanned, had reached the deepest point in the Earth's oceans. |
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While their contemporaries were singing about topographic oceans and giant hogweeds, VDGG would not shy away from issues of the day. |
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They live in all oceans except for the Arctic and Antarctic Circle regions. |
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The basking shark is a cosmopolitan migratory species, found in all the world's temperate oceans. |
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This process, called the biological pump, is one reason that oceans constitute the largest carbon sink on Earth. |
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Planktic Cyanobacteria inhabit diverse aquatic environment from Antarctic lakes and nutrient-poor oceans to highly nutrient-rich lakes and ponds. |
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Ships crossing both oceans have taken advantage of the ocean currents for centuries. |
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The aim was for the colony to have an overland route that connected the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. |
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English is spoken by communities on every continent and on oceanic islands in all the major oceans. |
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Hence, the immense biodiversity of our oceans provides a critical, fertile ground for natural products bioprospecting. |
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Both trends reflect the movement of several gigatonnes of carbon between sources and sinks in the oceans and on land. |
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Grenadiers are a diverse group of deep-sea gadiform fishes that are found worldwide in all oceans. |
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It is predominantly found in the temperate and tropical oceans and is the longest bony fish alive. |
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Also called the finback whale, razorback or common rorqual, it is found in all the world's major oceans from polar to tropical waters. |
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He said that particular zone in the Earth, the transition zone, might have as much water as all the world's oceans put together. |
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Oceanographers use Their knowledge of biology, CHEMISTRY, physics and geology To sTudy The seas and oceans. |
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The buchiids were certainly the most abundant bivalve group in the oceans of British Columbia during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. |
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In modern oceans lophophorate worms are represented by non-biomineralizing phoronids which dwell in mucus tubes. |
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Some 70 million years after this particular galeaspid swam the oceans, fish made another evolutionary leap when they took to life on land. |
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The oceans are the major source of the atmospheric moisture that is obtained through evaporation. |
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Inclimate weather in the English Channel and on the oceans at the time has always been cited as a major factor to the outcome. |
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They are created by the onshore flow from the cool high latitude oceans to their west. |
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By the start of 1856, Darwin was investigating whether eggs and seeds could survive travel across seawater to spread species across oceans. |
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This finding is the first evidence of active hydrothermal vents beyond the oceans of Earth. |
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At 10 parts per quadrillion the Earth's oceans would hold 15,000 tonnes of gold. |
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The tides of the oceans are created by the gravatational pull of the moon. |
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From about 800 Ad to 1040 AD, the Vikings explored Europe and much of the Western Northern Hemisphere via rivers and oceans. |
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As mariners had started to explore the oceans in the Age of Discovery the problem of accurate navigation had become more pressing. |
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It may be reasonable to assume that piracy has existed for as long as the oceans were plied for commerce. |
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There was some damage to Britain, especially in 1808 and 1811, but its control of the oceans helped ameliorate the damage. |
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The time was still to come when the Royal Navy would be an unchallenged dominant force on the oceans. |
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Areas of its EEZ are located in three oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. |
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I sailed as a sedimentologist and have a strong interest in the oceans involvement in climate change. |
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Flatfishes are found in oceans worldwide, ranging from the Arctic, through the tropics, to Antarctica. |
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Knauth contends that animals may well have had their origins in freshwater lakes and streams, and not in the oceans. |
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If, as seems likely, such a bombardment struck Earth at the same time, the first atmosphere and oceans may have been stripped away. |
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Kittiwakes are coastal breeding birds ranging in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Arctic oceans. |
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The military and geologists employ strong sonar and produce an increases in noise in the oceans. |
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Chub mackerel migrate long distances in oceans and across the Mediterranean. |
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This relationship is only approximate, however, since local factors, such as proximity to oceans, can drastically modify the climate. |
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Due to the melting of Arctic sea ice and thermal expansion of the oceans, as a result of global warming, sea levels have begun to rise. |
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