Then a line of black rises in front of them: the sea stands soldier-straight and dark.
In Britain, though the nation once almost defined itself by its seafaring, that tradition has by now largely died; the sea stands forlornly at one remove in the British national consciousness, intermediated by seaside piers and ice cream or, more recently, by the Channel tunnel.
In 2002, scientists decided to clone the "old oak" in Taganrog, said to have inspired the famous opening lines of Pushkin's "Ruslan and Ludmila:" By the sea stands a green oak tree; A golden chain strung round it: And on the chain a learned cat Day and night circles round it; Walking right, he sings a song, Walking left, he tells a tale.
During the high sea stands the smaller rivers below the fall line were likely completely obliterated, leaving obligate freshwater taxa to inhabit the refugia of isolated upstream sections in the larger rivers.
For now, it appears that protesters on the high seas stand the best chance of cutting short the hunt.
CASCADE-SEA stands for computer supported curriculum analysis, design and evaluation for science education in Africa.
Saturday brought horse racing along the beach: we stood in the "sea stand" as the horses galloped past.
Along the coastline of the studied area, alignments of phreatic speleothems attributed to high sea stands 5a, 5c and 5e are recorded at increasing elevations northwards.
Between the new earthen walls and the sea stand 183 hectares of land that the Agency says will rapidly become a saltwater marsh, with potentially huge benefits for wildlife in the area.
Although no drainage connections exist between most of these rivers today, during periods of low sea stands there were coalescent events between many of these streams, enabling taxa to disperse throughout these systems [ 5, 6].
