Sentence examples for shallow ocean from inspiring English sources

Rudists lived in shallow ocean waters on the sea floor.

"It's still not known what the links between the deep ocean and the shallow ocean are," Dr. Seibel said.

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.

One company also allowed drilling muds to be discharged in the shallow ocean rather than pumping them underground as required along much of Alaska's shore.

Mr. Sampedro was a 25-year-old merchant marine when he dived into the shallow ocean waters near his home and broke his back in August 1968.

If you put carbon dioxide in the atmosphere all of a sudden, the atmosphere is going to warm up, followed by the land and then the shallow ocean.

Most are of sedimentary origin, and many show evidence of deposition in or near shallow oceans.

Some estimates suggest that there was water in shallow oceans for as long as 500 m.y.

Instead, large, shallow oceans covered most of Earth, with a few crater rims and volcanoes sticking out as islands.

Now the global temperature has fallen to the point that water has condensed into vast, shallow oceans that virtually cover the planetary surface, with lava and pumice islands rising from undersea volcanic regions.

Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space -- where, Shaw proposes, insect-like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence -- Planet of the Bugs spins a sweeping account of insects' evolution from humble arthropod ancestors into the bugs we know and love (or fear and hate) today.