Learn through an animation about the formation of the volcanic island chains like Hawaii and SamoaA computer visualization of the process by which volcanic island chains are formed. Great plumes of super-hot rock, flowing upward from Earth's mantle, have created Hawaii, Samoa, and similar island...
Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the i
Sumatra, Indonesian island, the second largest (after Borneo) of the Greater Sunda Islands, in the Malay Archipelago. It is separated in the northeast from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca and in the south from Java by the Sunda Strait. In th
To further analyze the variations in the sea and land wind speeds under different gradients and the influences of different LCZ types on the UHI strength, ArcMap 10.4 (Environmental Systems Research Institute, California, USA) was used to calculate the distances of various meteorological stations fro...
While this may seem contradictory, it suggests that different families have redundant functions, and the expansion of a family may lead to redundancy in another family and consequent gene loss through the pseudogene formation. In this study, we were able to elucidate patterns of genome evolution ...
Hypo- saline lens formation in the upper water column was observed on a limited number of occasions at the height of the austral summer, but never reduced salin- ity of the upper 10 m by more than 1 psu relative to the underlying water column (but other depths — which were untested —...
The entire shape of the island is close to an oval formation in that the major axis inclines at about 15 degrees against the latitude from the northeast to the southwest and it is 2.4 times longer than the minor axis. Its length is 73 km and the width is 41km. The annual average ...
Due to the thermal stratification of the ocean column, the temperature at subsequent water level is a strong function of the water depth. The NOAA provided the detailed gridded bathymetry, the ETOPO1 dataset, at 1 arc minute resolution (Fig. 1a). The ETOPO1 data relies on the Sandwell and...
(Makira Island). TheSanta Cruz Islandsare a group of small islands located some 345 miles (555 km) east of Guadalcanal; the largestislandin the group is Nendö (also called Ndeni Island or Santa Cruz Island). Geologically, the Solomon Islands are part of the volcanic arc extending from...
Kangaroo Island, third largest Australian offshore island, located at the entrance to the Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia, 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Adelaide. Its formation is that of a low cliffed plateau (structurally a continuation of the Mount