Sentence examples for offshore pacific from inspiring English sources

Australia detains asylum seekers in offshore Pacific island facilities.

This whole area has been profoundly faulted because it lies near the western edge of the North American tectonic plate, which is grinding against the offshore Pacific plate.

Michael Bochenek, senior counsel for Human Rights Watch, also visited Nauru, one of two offshore Pacific sites where Australia sends migrants who try to reach its shores by sea, and the groups issued a joint report on Tuesday about their findings.

The resultant weakness of the California continental margin helps explain why the SAFS did not establish itself within the offshore Pacific Plate in oceanic lithosphere, but instead was distributed in the former forearc where water release from the forearc mantle rendered faults weak in the evolving SAFS.

Similar to our coastal/offshore comparison, Baird's beaked whale samples from offshore Pacific Ocean waters contained 60-fold higher DMBP levels than the same sample type from the Sea of Japan, despite having relatively similar anthropogenic PCB levels.

From Antigua in the Caribbean to Nauru in the South Pacific, offshore tax havens leach billions of dollars every year in tax revenues from countries around the world.

The Geological Survey of Canada (Natural Resources Canada) has therefore undertaken an assessment of seafloor geological characteristics and physical environmental parameters that will be encountered during any extensive deployment of marine renewable energy systems for the Pacific offshore of Canada.

A deep-water Indio-Pacific Offshore Bioregion includes the abyss of the entire east coast.

Warmer than usual temperatures on land and offshore in the North Pacific led to rainfall events even at high elevations.

Just offshore, the westward-moving Pacific Plate slides under another, slowly dragging Hokkaido down with it (which explains the subsidence of the past 100 years).

Although much is known about the behavior of white sharks in coastal regions, very little is known about their vertical movements offshore in the eastern Pacific where they spend up to five months.