Sentence examples for block seawater from inspiring English sources

Marine mussels (family Mytilidae) foul ships, buoys, and wharves; they may also block seawater intakes into the cooling systems of power stations.

In the model being run by French researchers, the powerful Kuroshiro current the Pacific's version of the Gulf Stream tends to block contaminated seawater from flowing southward toward Tokyo Bay while picking up little contamination itself.

The conductivity of each block representing seawater (3.2 S m−1), including the seafloor, or above the sea surface (air and/or land) is treated as a fixed parameter in the inversion, so that M = 53446.

The model blocks in the seawater area were fixed to 0.3 Ω m.

The resistivity structure of the Earth was a uniform-half space with a resistivity of 100 Ωm; resistivity blocks corresponding to seawater were fixed at 0.33 Ωm.

Blocks containing both seawater and land were fixed at a resistivity calculated from the weighted mean of the conductivities (reciprocals of the resistivities) of land and seawater, according to the volume ratio.

(b) The conductivities of the blocks that include both seawater and crustal rock portions, like the bold block, are calculated by conserving horizontal conductance within each block.

A randomized block design with triplicate seawater net-pens and 400 fish per pen (pen = 125 m) was used for the experiment.

The sea's waters had evaporated about 300,000 years earlier, when the Mediterranean's only inlet at the time, the Strait of Gibraltar, blocked the flow of seawater from the Atlantic Ocean.

Even the densest concrete seldom weighs more than 60 percent of its weight in air when fully immersed in seawater; consequently, such blocks may have to be as much as 30 tons (27,000 kilograms) in weight to resist excessive movement.

The blocks were submerged in sterilized seawater independently, allowing zoospores to release.