Today, the phenomenon known as El Niño periodically spawns a zone of very warm water stretching across the mid-Pacific Ocean and causes a jump in severe weather patterns, particularly in North America.
This stationary or very slow-moving front forms a boundary between cold and warm air and thus is a zone of strong horizontal temperature gradient (sometimes referred to as a baroclinic zone).
The objective of this study is to study the properties and genesis of soils at Cierva Point, which is located in the zone of maximum warming along the western Antarctic Peninsula.
The Kolkhida Lowland, for example, has a subtropical character up to about 1,600 to 2,000 feet, with a zone of moist, moderately warm climate lying just above; still higher is a belt of cold, wet winters and cool summers.
A zone of extensive sinter, warm ground, fumaroles, and mud pots mark the surface expression of the Bradys fault zone over a distance of ~4 km (Coolbaugh et al. 2004; Faulds et al. 2012).
In Uzon, recent hydrothermal activity is manifested by outlets of overheated water that produces a zone of local surface warming in its northeastern part.
For all that, Chase is still dubious about television — "I always wanted to get out of the television business and would still like to" — but on the set he seemed to work in a warm zone of engagement and satisfaction.
That one example does, however, suggest that something which is rocky, possesses an atmosphere and lies within the "habitable zone" of its star ie, is warm enough to keep any water liquid is a good place to start looking.There is nothing that says such a body has to be a planet.
For instance, varying temperatures cause dehydration reactions to occur at shallower depths in the slabs of warm subduction zones (e.g., Southwest Japan, Cascades) compared to slabs of cold subduction zones (e.g., Tonga, Java) (Peacock and Wang 1999).
