Sentence examples for oceans were not from inspiring English sources

The commissioner of the environment, Johanne Gélinas, said in a report that the country's drinking water, national parks and oceans were not being adequately protected.

It then became apparent that the oceans were not simply an accumulator of salts, but, as water evaporated from the oceans, the introduced salts must be removed in the form of minerals.

It then became apparent that the oceans were not merely an accumulator of salts; rather, as water evaporated from the oceans, together with some salt, the salts introduced must be removed in the form of minerals deposited in sediments.

Rising oceans were not enough to make people question their devotion to the car, but with dwindling oil reserves seeing petrol prices nudge the $300-a-barrel mark, many are now abandoning their vehicles.

Speaking at a Guardian Live event, at Central Hall in London, he said he was deeply disturbed at how issues such as climate change, cyber wars and the future of the oceans were not ballot box issues, admitting it was hard to translate these issues into an acceptable set of choices for voters.

The presence of that sulfide means that the oceans were not only sulfidic during that time, they were also anoxic, both for chemical reasons and because sulfate reducers are strict anaerobes.

No, the oceans weren't getting colder: certain temperature sensors had given bad readings.

If the oceans weren't continuing to accumulate heat, sea levels would not be rising nearly as fast.

That means the oceans weren't almost dead for 10 millions years, as the Snowball Earth theory implies, says Kennedy.

But places in oceans are not locked down, they move".

Furthermore, observations from modern oceans are not a priori applicable to fossil ones.