Sentence examples for ocean areas from inspiring English sources

About 40percentt of ocean areas are strongly affected, and just 4percentt pristine, according to the review.

It encompasses all ocean areas up to 200 nautical miles out from the nation's 13,000 miles of coastline.

West Africa comes comprehensively bottom of the list with 10 of its 11 ocean areas judged the least healthy in the world.

"We expect land areas to warm faster than ocean areas, and polar regions faster than the tropics," Hennessy told Guardian Australia.

Electronic distance-measuring systems accelerated the progress of geodetic surveys during the 1960s and extended continental schemes over many ocean areas.

Coral reef, ridge or hummock formed in shallow ocean areas by algae and the calcareous skeletons of certain coelenterates, of which coral polyps are the most important.

Open-ocean areas of the Atlantic have remained largely free of human-generated wastes, but increases in marine pollution have been found in poorly mixed coastal waters, especially those located near population and industrial centres and river mouths.

Sperm whales across the Pacific, even in mid-ocean areas thought to be pristine, are accumulating humanmade chemicals called persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

The shark spends most of its time in the upper layer of the ocean to a depth of 150 m —and prefers off-shore, deep-ocean areas.

Areas of high richness of fin-trade species were broader in geographic extent, located closer to the Equator, and extended more towards open-ocean areas, reflecting a high proportion of pelagic species (Fig. 3A).

The majority of the open-ocean areas are generally limited in the macronutrients N and P, and primary production is sporadically fuelled by eddy-mediated upwelling of remineralized nutrients [ 2].