I dropped in regularly for updates on a nasty bush war, and a lone Marine waved as I breezed past.
Its good reservoir quality shows that the energy of the tidal currents may have increased distally with an input of the shallow marine wave actions in a manner that cleaner sands were deposited.
A combined record of onshore, high-resolution, shear-wave seismic and marine, P-wave seismic data shows the near-shore stratigraphic organisation of a fjord-valley fill at Trondheim, central Norway.
This excess heat is increasing not only baseline ocean temperatures but also the frequency and duration of marine heat waves.
The rise in these marine heat waves has occurred while ever more heat is stored in the ocean because of accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
"This increase in marine heat waves is having devastating impacts on coral reefs around the world," said Mark Eakin, a coral reefs specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Even seabirds did not emerge from marine heat waves unscathed, most likely because their food sources either died off or moved in response to the warming.
However, Kimberley corals were nevertheless not immune to severe heat stress simulated in a tank experiment26, raising the question how they would respond to periods of elevated temperatures associated with marine heat waves.
Some of the effects of marine heat waves, which may be less obvious to people, include sustained loss of kelp forests, reduced surface chlorophyll levels, which affect phytoplankton populations, mass mortality of marine invertebrates and reshaping of the community structure of ocean species, Tuesday's study said.
"The warm blob in the northeast Pacific caused increased mortality of sea lions, whales and seabirds, very low ocean primary productivity, an increase in warm-water copepod species in the Northern California region, and novel species compositions," noted a separate commentary on the "emerging risks" from marine heat waves, published in Nature Communications in February.
