A Desert Sea Change; Rising Water Level Alters Great Salt LakeJennifer Dobner
Introduction: The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake and as such is one of the major inland bodies of salt water in the world, and the largest lake of brine in the western hemisphere. Its unique features, including its mineral rich waters and interesting shores and islands, make it appeali...
Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island So...
Another thing. A landscape is a much more complex thing than a photo or a painting. I believe, like Robert Macfarlane, that you only come to ‘know’ a landscape by walking in it, physically knowing the effort of hills and hard ground, or the release of level turf. Equally, walking in...
Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the ...
jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.They are not perfect ovals-like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end-but their physical resemblance must be a source of perp...
The name, the Great Basin, comes from a peculiarity of drainage: over most of the area, streams and rivers find no outlet to the sea. Instead water collects in shallow salt lakes, marshes and mud flats, where it evaporates in the desert air. There is not just one basin here, but many...
Most of these finds, how- ever, refer to the exploitation of coastal wetlands or saltmarshes in approximately their present position in relation to modern sea level, and do not represent underwater finds in the sense used in this volume. Unless they have demonstrably been inundated by sea-...
read about this topic, you may see the termsemelparousreferring to salmon and other fish species, meaning reproducing only once, as opposed toiteroparous. (and the opposite of “anadromous” is actually “catadromous”, meaning those that live in fresh water and migrate to salt water to spawn...
(about 1,400 feet) below sea level,nearly 27 meters lower than in 1977. This is primarily due to increasingly intensive withdrawal for irrigation from the Jordan and Yarmouk Rivers, which feed directly into the Dead Sea. The second major cause is the direct withdrawal of water from the ...