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Sentence Examples Currents outside the barrier reef and through the Pemba Channel can be very strong. Currents also carry organic material down the continental slope from the land. Currents also change from offshore to onshore, and combined with strong winds blowing onshore, anything that floats has a tendency to head this way. Currents of opposition became a furor following the mental breakdown and death of a group member, William Morgan. The South Equatorial Currents of the Atlantic and Pacific straddle the equator. Among other lightweight UPF pieces, Simms introduced its Currents Hoody in the company's spring 2014 collection. Currents and awesome wind with floatsome foam and dreg clinging dog paddle through mountainous seas toward safety of shore. Currents flow through this canyon southward, mixing offshore waters with the Nova Scotia Current. Back when she started working for Currents, most articles had to be retyped for publication, but now everything comes to us in a word processing file. Kevin Parker of Tame Impala has said that listening to the Bee Gees after taking mushrooms inspired him to change the sound of the music he was making in his album Currents. Currents ranging from tens of picoamperes to more than 100pA were measured in the G4-DNA over distances ranging from tens of nanometers to more than 100nm. Currents induced into this winding provide the rotor magnetic field. The War of Currents eventually resolved in favor of AC distribution and utilization, although some DC systems persisted to the end of the 20th century. For comparison, the chiefly wind-driven Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, and Agulhas Currents carry in excess of 100 million cubic meters per second within horizontal circulations. Swimming in the sea is to be clearly done at one's own risk, as the currents are very strong in this part of the coast. The dive sites here are home to some of the strongest, wildest and most dangerous tidal currents in the world. You must pick your time well, as she is often swept by strong tidal currents. To ignore warning signs of strong currents, king waves or rip tides may have lethal consequences. Strong tidal currents in the channel, however, limit deposition to the Celtic Sea. However, when the tide slows and changes direction, the tidal currents again enter the bay and push the eddy out to sea. Show More Sentences Because of its location east of the Isle of Wight, tidal currents make diving tricky. The haploid tetraspore is released from this filament and is carried by water currents and tides to new locations. Relax and rationalise your fears, make sure that your instructor teaches you about the water, learn about the effects of currents and riptides. Little did he know he would be caught in a riptide of conflicting currents. The currents of these ion-channels may cross the double bilayer of the outer tegumental membrane. As we sat on the sand, five female instructors talked to us about currents, riptides and the nature of waves. He knows polls and districts and congressional races the way a sea-fisherman knows tides and currents and shoals. In seas up to eight feet and dangerous rip currents, two of the three Cuban migrants struggled to stay afloat. In spring, I can feel the currents of cool air streaming toward me carrying odors of herbs and roots. Pilots typically seek out thermals or currents created by ridges to extend their flights. Marine deposits are formed along seashores by sea water flowing in longshore currents. But first, researchers must perfect schemes for creating spin-aligned currents inside semiconductors, the materials used to make microchips. It drifts with the currents and pulsates to maintain position at the proper depths. More importantly, he was one of the first not only to detect, but also to measure precisely bioelectric currents. Apparently the titanium has an ability to regulate the body's natural bioelectric currents though cell ionisation. The winds, storms, and currents combine to whip up huge seas, driving rough waves on top of massive swells. Many families have vegetable gardens and grow apple trees, gooseberries and black currents. Wedge-tailed eagles drift in the air currents, and in the mornings the hills are alive with western grey kangaroos. Officers standing on the shore could hear his cries but dared not enter the water because of the dangerous tidal currents. Perched on the edge of the fragmenting Roman world, Britain between ad 300 and 700 was at a meeting of currents flowing from several directions. Show More Sentences They are transported by ocean and air currents, and bioaccumulate in the tissues of living organisms. White bass heavy with eggs are massing in the currents of the Pineywoods rivers and tributaries. But most arctic sea ice consists of pack ice, broken sheets moved by wind and ocean currents. Electrodes are placed on the stomach, bottom and thighs and two electrical currents are switched on. A simple experiment can be used to help students develop an understanding of the induction of eddy currents and Lenz's Law. There is nothing to slow the wind-caused currents or keep the sediments from resuspending. Publishers and authors alike had to be concerned about the shifting currents in Restoration politics and religion. Negative charge is generally carried to the surface by leakage currents and lightning strikes beneath clouds. The curve of the meniscus between the fluids can be altered with currents sent through the tube, which changes the focus of the lens. Ending up bobbing in the ocean at the mercy of what might be a confluence of different currents is another matter entirely. Light in certain engineered dielectric microstructures can flow in a way similar to electrical currents in semiconductor chips. These assumed action at a distance and deduced the mathematical laws for induction of electric currents. Carlock had been drifting for more than five hours and could have been pulled by currents into the busy shipping lanes to Long Beach Harbor. Taking full advantage of the glut, the flower-like polyps of xenia soft corals pulsated as they fed on the zooplankton delivered by the currents. We constantly had to fight unpredictable currents, sometimes going in opposite directions along the wall on the same dive. The area has currents with associated tide rips and eddy lines, though the areas of swiftest flow can be avoided. The easiest way to think about thermoelectricity is to realize that electrical and thermal currents are coupled. As the magnetic storm raged through the night, huge geomagnetically induced currents surged through the wires and cables. Maritz said shad runs were unlike the annual sardine run, where the smaller fish were trapped between warm currents and the land. The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity. Show More Sentences The seas around Malta are virtually tideless and currents are very rare in summer. There are strong tidal currents in the area as well as mud, which can trap waders and swimmers. They occur from July to September, when changing airstreams draw moisture-laden currents from Mexico tot he dry Southwest. Fierce headwinds driving against currents produced steep-fronted waves that smashed into the fleet as it struggled to reach the finish line. Responses ensuing from the spontaneous release of single quanta are termed miniature excitatory junctional currents. Most of my interaction with the islanders was made treacherous by currents of wariness. Mr Schroder said warm currents and high temperatures were causing the blooms, which may cause skin rashes and eye or ear infections. For example, each barrier island has a shoreline that faces the sea and receives the full force of waves, tides, and currents. Lake Vouliagmeni's waters partially come from underground currents from Mount Hymettus. The agency forester radioed for a rescue boat, but the aluminum craft with its three-horsepower motor was no match for the powerful currents. The movement of water associated with tides can also result in the formation of tidal currents. Local fishing crews had told him of the Lombok Strait's fiendishly shifting currents, vicious whirlpools, and unexpected waves far from shore. Huge currents flowing past islands and peninsulas generate enormous swirls in their wake, occasionally casting off giant whirlpools. Considering the strong currents and whirlpools, the north-east side proved surprisingly silty but the south side was completely different. There were new evangelical currents afloat, especially the tracts the Fundamentals that gave the literalist movement its name. Indeed, electrical currents could lead to a potential drop and to heating and catalysis of undesirable electrochemical reactions. The morning breeze builds a rollercoast of wind currents and I see a happy bird sailing in loopy loops against these somber hulking offices. Crashing waves pose an obvious hazard, and then there are tides, rip currents and strong winds to consider. Waves and currents sort these materials, and deposit them on a bar, spit, cuspate foreland, tombolo, or beach. The fundamental nature of magnetism was not associated with magnetic poles or iron magnets, but with electric currents. Show More Sentences Earth has magnetic poles because of charged-particle currents roiling deep within its molten core. I swam right through the rip currents and broke through the surface on the other side. The panels themselves can be wired together in parallel or in series to produce a variety of currents suitable for almost any use. Current meter measurements suggested that tidal currents were strong enough to cause bedload transport of sediment and Mya. The whole is quite representative of one of the French lexicological currents in the period considered. These currents are induced by the rapidly changing magnetic field generated by a coil supplied with an alternating current. Diving here is not that difficult, as there is almost no tidal water and the currents are mostly weak. The horizontal currents over the reef were found to be primarily due to the hydraulic flow and surface gravitational seiches. The magnetic interaction between the applied field and the eddy currents acts to slow the wheels down. These currents are largely produced by electrochemical reactions and fluid flow in the subsurface, and the measurable voltages can be up to several hundred millivolts. Underneath the most placid waters, there are vicious currents and tides, and underwater volcanoes that are constantly erupting. A sprinkling of volcanic rock in the Pacific, they are 600 miles east of their nearest land mass, and beset on all sides by seven mighty ocean currents. The method enabled the analysis of ionic currents of laticifer protoplasts of Hevea brasiliensis, root hair cells of Medicago sativa and guard cells of several species. Not far off, say the technology's developers, are photonic microcircuits that process light beams the way today's microelectronics chips process electric currents. Sound from a microphone placed near the ear is converted to weak electrical currents that activate auditory nerve endings inside the cochlea in the inner ear. Your village is small and remote, extremely difficult to reach because it is isolated from the world by the treacherous currents offshore and the high mountains landward. And the ocean currents tend to drift westwards on the northern side. No doubt because those magnetohydrodynamic currents are complex and unpredictable, the Earth's magnetic poles shift and even flip as time goes by. Aided by currents, the Haven has attracted all the filter-feeding creatures such as crinoids and ascidians, and there are plenty of holes to be occupied. But we do not live in that world, and that is a headwind pushing against currents of balance, growth, and repair. Show More Sentences Shortly after that, the first currents of liberation theology emerged in Latin America and the U.S., making neo-orthodoxy seem stuffy, provincial and oppressive. Experts used to think it was just a matter of the air being heated by particles and electric currents in the regions around the poles, where auroras occur. Sometimes as a social historian one sees currents that recur time and time again in the memetic ocean of man's consciousness, and we wonder what drives them. The currents can be very strong, but this attracts the larger pelagics and with luck you will encounter tuna, barracuda, blacktip sharks and even whale sharks. Located at the southern tip of Pulau Pinang, this area swamps with currents, and hence presents a good chance to observe sharks, barracudas, jacks and schools of yellowtail. He subtly dipped into the social currents that designers in New York studiously avoided. Theoretical models based on current injection membranes predict that excitation will occur for currents of all strengths once a threshold is exceeded. In this way, the anti-modern currents running through woodcraft served as a precursor to the broad critique of modernity that inspired the interwar years wilderness movement. Large surface currents are mainly driven by winds that blow year round. They suggest there is a real risk of a sudden rupture, e.g. a structural change in ocean currents or the melting of the Western Antarctic ice sheet. The DLR team used electromagnetic levitation, which exploits an EM field to provide both levitation, through Lenz's law, and heating, through surface eddy currents. Because the radioactive source of heat is deep within the mantle, the fluid asthenosphere circulates as convection currents underneath the solid lithosphere. Rip currents, sometimes called rip tides, can happen when Longshore currents, which move parallel to the beach, bounce seaward because of a change in the bottom's structure. She watched the currents rush into whirlpools and swirl and swirl until they bumped into the next whirlpool, finally disappearing hundreds of feet beneath the water. Northerly winds and currents will tend to drive oil slicks towards the spectacular seabird and seal colonies of Cape Terpeniya and Tyulenniy Island. Finely divided pulp debris and dead yeast cells which are very small settle more slowly and are easily resuspended by currents within the settling vessel. Silicon chips are typically two-dimensional, Boahen explained, limiting the number of dedicated currents they can utilize. The ship turned sideways, with its right side overlooking the deep abyss at the center of the Maelstrom, slowly traveling in the water's currents. The Aeolian Harp took its fundamental form from the traditional wind harp, an instrument that plays ethereal, random music as wind currents move over and vibrate its strings. Working with a sextant for two days, she figured out her bearings and rigged a sail to position herself in currents she hoped would take her to Hawaii. Show More Sentences The torpidity of this sick animated humaness is a figuration of the total energic flow of this world-body in which life-and-death are its metabolic currents. Linear, prograding coasts are the consequence of a substantial supply of sediment derived by transport along the coast by longshore drift and coastal currents. Rand Paul's win and Arlen Specter's loss show strong anti-establishment currents on both sides. Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone. Along with direct branch currents, this leakage takes place in surface water filaments, and Agulhas Eddies. In addition to the effects on nutrients, the mixing of the cold and warm currents often causes fog in the area. Oceanic and atmospheric currents transfer particles, debris, and organisms all across the globe. Mesoscale ocean eddies are characterized by currents which flow in a roughly circular motion around the center of the eddy. The sense of rotation of these currents may either be cyclonic or anticyclonic. It is used almost exclusively in oceanography to measure the volumetric rate of transport of ocean currents. Many have a rough sticky texture, which together with a robust but flexible body, helps it to withstand strong water currents. These include the rise of sea temperature and the change of sea currents due to climate change. From there, young eels drift with ocean currents and then migrate inland into streams, rivers and lakes. It induced currents strong enough to short out telegraph lines, and aurorae were reported as far south as Hawaii. Icebergs are usually confined by winds and currents to move close to the coast. They are equipped with sensors that measure ocean temperature and currents. This was due to the prevailing direction of oceanic currents, rather than to a competition between North and South American forms. Activity continued for several weeks or months, with pyroclastic currents which covered valleys up to ten kilometres away with sticky tephra. The strategic position of the Cape of Good Hope between two major ocean currents, ensures a rich diversity of marine life. The toys have since been found all over the world, providing a better understanding of ocean currents. Show More Sentences Interactive sites like Adrift demonstrate where marine plastic is carried, over time, on the worlds ocean currents. Ocean currents are rivers of relatively warm or cold water within the ocean. The depth contours, the shoreline and other currents influence the current's direction and strength. These currents, which flow under the surface of the ocean and are thus hidden from immediate detection, are called submarine rivers. Surface currents are generally restricted to the upper 400 meters of the ocean. This is due primarily to upwelling and strong cold coastal currents that reduce water temperatures in these areas. Capelin distribution and migration is linked with ocean currents and water masses. They may live around features, such as seamounts, which have strong currents. Cyclic changes in these currents resulted in a decline in the sardine sardinops melanosticta populations. Ocean currents can shape how fish are distributed, both concentrating and dispersing them. Islands and banks can interact with currents and upwellings in a manner that results in areas of high ocean productivity. Eggs and larvae are pelagic and are carried into estuarine nursery areas via prevailing currents. Drift nets lost or abandoned at sea due to storms causing strong currents, accidental loss, or purposeful discard become ghost nets. Depending on the size of the particles and water currents the plumes could spread over vast areas. In oceanography, a gyre is any large system of circulating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. These cause frictional surface currents towards the latitude at the center of the gyre. Westward boundary currents are therefore faster and deeper than eastern boundary currents, and the geostrophic hill is offset to the west. The currents there carry the fine particles around to the quiet side of the spit and sediment begins to build up. Summers are cool due to cool ocean currents, but winters are milder than other climates in similar latitudes, but usually very cloudy. In this type of salvage, vessels are exposed to waves, currents and weather and are the most vulnerable and difficult to work on. Show More Sentences After the sinking, the partially buried wreck created a barrier at a right angle against the currents of the Solent. The timbers and contents of the port side were deposited in the scour pits and the remaining ship structure, or else carried off by the currents. It represents a sandy lithofacies deposited in areas of stronger currents than the Gault Clay. The Arctic ice cap formed, drying the climate and increasing cool shallow currents in the North Atlantic. The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, and altitude, as well as nearby water bodies and their currents. Other ocean currents redistribute heat between land and water on a more regional scale. The dominant intellectual currents of the Enlightenment promoted rationalism, and most Protestant leaders preached a sort of deism. Alessandro Volta, the inventor of the electrical battery and discover of methane, did substantial work with electric currents. They discovered new routes, ocean currents, trade winds, crops, spices and other products. The Sargasso Sea is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. It is considered a difficult route to navigate due to the narrowness of the passage and unpredictable winds and currents. Strong currents, combined with shallows and jagged reefs surrounding the island, make navigation near the island perilous. Since the 1950s, Peruvian art has been eclectic and shaped by both foreign and local art currents. The Barents sea is affected by the currents of warm water from the Gulf Stream, feeding into the North Atlantic. Strong tidal currents occur in the narrow channels between islands and reefs, and large submarine sand dunes migrate across the seafloor. The interaction between currents, sea ice, and weather makes for a vigorous and productive ecosystem. Ocean currents are important in the study of marine debris, and vice versa. A Coast Guard station oversees boating activity, especially in the swift tidal currents of the Merrimack River. Icy water, strong currents and obstacles like weed and the odd eel or two provided the ultimate test of stamina. Geologists now attribute its formation to submarine avalanches or strong turbidity currents. Show More Sentences Be careful in winter, when high surf and rip currents make swimming dangerous. As a consequence, the turbiditic currents of marly mud are not able to cause erosion similar to those of siliciclastic mud. Nutrient-rich currents from the cold southern seas of the Antarctic swirl around volcanic seamounts that rise from vast deep abyssal plains. Viruliferous curl mites increase during summer on volunteer wheat, and are carried by air currents into the new wheat crop. The resulting mix of currents produces water features called holes, wave trains and haystacks. The heat going into or out of a marine basin or a certain area in the sea through ocean currents or precipitation is called advective heat. Particle capture by filter feeders, for example, differs considerably among sites because of velocity and organic content of water currents. Several varied currents of thought were active, but the ideas of reform and renewal were led by the clergy. Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. Rapid solution exchanges were accomplished through a series of flow pipes mounted onto a piezoelectric bimorph to evoke NMDA receptor currents. As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes. We demonstrate that addressable microstimulators powered by rectification of epidermically applied currents are feasible. The transfer of heat from a hot object by means of upward hot air currents from the object, is due to free convection. The MAR is a barrier for bottom water, but at these two transform faults deep water currents can pass from one side to the other. In the South Atlantic the Walvis Ridge and Rio Grande Rise form barriers to ocean currents. Climate is influenced by the temperatures of the surface waters and water currents as well as winds. Ocean currents influence climate by transporting warm and cold waters to other regions. The winds that are cooled or warmed when blowing over these currents influence adjacent land areas. In 1500, in his voyage to India following Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral reached Brazil, taken by the currents of the South Atlantic Gyre. They could explore the convoys leaving America because prevailing winds and currents made the transport of heavy metals slow and predictable. Show More Sentences However, tidal currents occur in narrow passages in the western parts of the Baltic Sea. Historically the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents during the age of sail. The initial attempt was called off after adverse currents hampered the assault and the element of surprise was lost. In the radicalised times at the end of World War I, democratic reforms were often seen as a means to counter popular revolutionary currents. Parasitic eddy currents cannot form in the rotor as it is totally ironless, although iron rotors are laminated. Hinduism as it is commonly known can be subdivided into a number of major currents. A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake. The climate varies greatly over small distances, due to the altitude, ocean currents, topography, and winds. Combined with a tidal range of 10m and fast currents of up to 12 knots, this makes sailing in local waters dangerous. The sea receiveth a red and minious tincture from springs, wells, and currents that fall into it. Culture in German states has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. For the most part, Poland has a smooth coastline, which has been shaped by the continual movement of sand by currents and winds. In addition, the strong currents had washed ashore many of the underwater obstacles. Strong currents forced many landing craft east of their intended position or caused them to be delayed. The surface currents of the Indian Ocean also have a monsoonal regimen associated with the Asian Monsoonal wind regimen. Maxwell's equations describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated by charges, currents, and changes of each other. A separate law of nature, the Lorentz force law, describes how the electric and magnetic field act on charged particles and currents. Jefimenko's equations are not so helpful in situations when the charges and currents are themselves affected by the fields they create. For example, in the solar wind they interact with the Earth's magnetosphere giving rise to Birkeland currents and the aurora. Bell thought it might be possible to generate undulating electrical currents that corresponded to sound waves. Show More Sentences Bell's own home used a primitive form of air conditioning, in which fans blew currents of air across great blocks of ice. Computer models showed the possibility of subsurface currents delivering oil to the surface in an upwelling off the Florida Shelf. Shoreline lakes are generally lakes created by blockage of estuaries or by the uneven accretion of beach ridges by longshore and other currents. Depth contours, shoreline configurations, and interactions with other currents influence a current's direction and strength. More specifically, ocean currents influence the temperature of the regions through which they travel. In these wind driven currents, the Ekman spiral effect results in the currents flowing at an angle to the driving winds. These currents, called submarine rivers, flow under the surface of the ocean and are hidden from immediate detection. Where significant vertical movement of ocean currents is observed, this is known as upwelling and downwelling. Deep ocean currents are currently being researched using a fleet of underwater robots called Argo. Thus, equatorial upwelling occurs in these westward flowing equatorial surface currents. Surface currents are found on the surface of an ocean, and are driven by large scale wind currents. Horizontal and vertical currents also exist below the pycnocline in the ocean's deeper waters. Knowledge of surface ocean currents is essential in reducing costs of shipping, since traveling with them reduces fuel costs. Ocean currents are also very important in the dispersal of many life forms. Since plankton are the food of fish, abundant fish populations often live where these currents prevail. Ocean currents can also be used for marine power generation, with areas off of Japan, Florida and Hawaii being considered for test projects. The volume of discharge of the Amazon River sometimes used to describe large volumes of water flow such as ocean currents. These western ocean currents transport warm, tropical water polewards toward the polar regions. Ships crossing both oceans have taken advantage of the ocean currents for centuries. The principal cause for differences in winter climate between North America and Europe is, however, winds rather than ocean currents. Show More Sentences Living in water with strong currents and potentially dangerous floating debris, it must swim continuously to avoid injury. Salmon can make amazing journeys, sometimes moving hundreds of miles upstream against strong currents and rapids to reproduce. They need substantial water microturbulence, generally provided by wave action or coastal currents. There were also groups who associated with both currents and were more attached to Surrealism, such as the Revolutionary Surrealist Group. The tides and currents of the river frequently shift mud and sand in the harbour. In large, crowded areas, brittle stars eat suspended matter from prevailing seafloor currents. Males generally choose elevated and exposed locations, so their milt can be broadcast by sea currents. Freshly hatched fish larvae are also plankton for a few days, as long as it takes before they can swim against currents. A particularly long stinger could be used, but this is also objectionable since that structure would be adversely affected by winds and currents. It is also subject to movements of the ship and currents moving the line out of true and therefore is inaccurate. Climate change influences the major wind systems and ocean currents, which also lead to cetacean strandings. As late as 1960 mass immigration currents were registered to Brazil, and many were from the Azores. Temperature and salinity are relatively constant with depth in this zone due to currents and wave action. Non periodic currents have for origin the waves, wind and different densities. The influence of these currents is mainly experienced at the mixed layer of the ocean surface, often from 400 to 800 meters of maximum depth. These currents can considerably alter, change and are dependent on the various yearly seasons. In the deep however, maritime currents are caused by the temperature gradients and the salinity between water density masses. In littoral zones, breaking wave is so intense and the depth measurement so low, that maritime currents reach often 1 to 2 knots. Ocean currents greatly affect Earth's climate by transferring heat from the tropics to the polar regions. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current encircles that continent, influencing the area's climate and connecting currents in several oceans. Show More Sentences The sea currents carry their eggs to the Norwegian Sea, and the adults also swim there to benefit from the food supply. Thus most settlements in Iceland and Greenland were on the west coasts of the islands, which were also warmer due to the Atlantic currents. Wave power is distinct from the diurnal flux of tidal power and the steady gyre of ocean currents. This meant that high tide formed a serious risk because strong tidal currents could tear huge areas of land into the sea. This energy is distributed around the globe by winds, ocean currents, and other mechanisms to affect the climates of different regions. There can be tidal currents since the water levels on either side of the amphidromic point are not the same. This relation can control the circulation of the oceans and the atmosphere, affecting how ocean currents carry heat to high latitude. Throughout most of geologic time, the North Pole appears to have been in a broad, open ocean that allowed major ocean currents to move unabated. In addition to direct effects, this caused feedback effects as ocean currents contribute to global heat transfer. The impact of waves and currents, carrying away sediments, is slowly changing the layout of the islands. This is complemented by longshore currents, which further transport sediment through the water alongside the beach. The data describes coastal morphology, surface currents and wave parameters. The rhizomes tolerate submersion in sea water and can break off and float in the currents to establish the grass at new sites. Internal waves are generated by wind energy, tidal energy, and ocean currents. Tsunami waves do not resemble normal undersea currents or sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. In reality, due to currents, air pressure variations, temperature and salinity variations, etc. Atmospheric pressure, ocean currents and local ocean temperature changes can affect LMSL as well. Thus, ocean currents at the time around the Early Cretaceous ran very differently from the way they do today. Some fish, such as catfish and sharks, have the Ampullae of Lorenzini, organs that detect weak electric currents on the order of millivolt. Over these weeks, larvae can disperse great distances by water currents before they metamorphose and settle as small spat. Show More Sentences These forces create corresponding motions or currents in the world's oceans. The fall in sea level also affects the circulation of ocean currents and thus has important impact on climate during the glacial maximum. In the theory of plume tectonics developed during the 1990s, a modified concept of mantle convection currents is used. Although graded bedding can form in many different environments, it is a characteristic of turbidity currents. Symmetric wave ripples occur in environments where currents reverse directions, such as tidal flats. Tides cause changes in the depth of the marine and estuarine water bodies and produce oscillating currents known as tidal streams. The sea ice is affected by wind and ocean currents, which can move and rotate very large areas of ice. Deep water circulation is controlled primarily by inflows from the Atlantic Ocean, the Red Sea, and Antarctic currents. The Atlantic NECC is unique among the equatorial currents in that basin because of its extreme seasonality. When the western margins of Panthalassa were reached intense western boundary currents would form the Eastern Laurasia Current. In the southern Panthalassa the four currents of the subtropical gyre, the South Panthalassa Gyre, rotated counterclockwise. When the continents separated and reformed themselves, it changed the flow of the oceanic currents and winds. When North America and South America connected, it stopped equatorial currents from passing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Ocean currents in the newly formed Antarctic or Southern Ocean created a circumpolar current. The creation of the new ocean that caused a circumpolar current eventually led to atmospheric currents that rotated from west to east. Atmospheric and oceanic currents stopped the transfer of warm, tropical air and water to the higher latitudes. As a result of the warm air and currents moving northward, Antarctica cooled down so much that it became frigid. Together with the water currents, they break up the floating ice sheets and mix various water layers both laterally and along the depth. The Caribbean weather is influenced by the Gulf Stream and Humboldt Current ocean currents. These currents carry numerous icebergs and therefore hinder navigation and exploration of the gas fields beneath the sea bed. Find more words! 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