Sentence examples for amounts of ocean from inspiring English sources

The second was related to accelerated seafloor spreading; the attendant enlargement of ocean ridges displaced enormous amounts of ocean water onto the landmasses.

Large amounts of ocean water now pass through the vents, with the whole ocean going through them approximately every ten million years (Edmond et al. 1982).

When the earthquake hits, the continent will jolt westward into the Pacific, displacing an enormous amount of ocean.

The ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are immense, and it turns out they exert enough gravitational pull to draw a substantial amount of ocean water toward them.

And, as my colleague Justin Gillis explained in this blog earlier this year, the notion that it is offset by increases in Antarctic ice is belied by data showing that the northern melting during the summer, based on the total amount of ocean covered, is progressing far faster than the rate of the southern increase in ice.

One common metric is the amount of ocean that governments have designated as protected areas.

Since then, the same research group has concluded that there may be many times that amount of ocean biomass.

The reserve is so big that it increases by 73% the amount of ocean where fishing is banned (to about 0.33%).

Limited resources are available on land; however, large amount of ocean energy is available and can be exploited for power generation.

That, in turn, would vary the amount of ocean crust that solidifies from the melted rock, changing the thickness of new crust by as much as a kilometer as it slides down either side of a midocean ridge.

The ever-increasing amount of ocean noise, including sonar, drowns out the vocalizations produced by whales, which makes it harder for them to communicate.