During the Jurassic period, 165 million years ago, the area was a warm shallow sea.
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Vegas is a city-sized version of this obsession with control, under a shallow sea of cultural references.
For roughly the first half of the past fifty million years, the region lay beneath a warm, shallow sea.
As in the Gulf, the oil deposits were created during a period of flourishing plant life 80 million years ago, when rivers draining Africa and South America dumped sediments into the narrow and shallow sea then separating the two continents.
The Salton Sea is shallow just 50 feet (15 metres) at its deepest point so a small drop in volume exposes a lot of silt.
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As its grand schemes falter, the state is pressing ahead with a more modest plan to turn between 400 and 800 acres (160-320 hectares) of the sea into shallow ponds.
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The northern part of the Caspian Sea is extremely shallow, with depths of only two to nine metres (seven to 30 feet).
"If we find a mine, we inform the national authority, and we would re-route the pipeline, " he explains, adding that the real challenge is the length of the pipeline, the shallow nature of the Baltic Sea and the irregular seabed.
McMoran has been developing expertise in drilling at extreme depths below sea level in the shallow waters of the gulf.
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Bar: fully or partially submerged mound of sand, gravel or other unconsolidated material built on the sea-bottom in shallow water by waves and currents.
Formed by storm tides as early as the 10th Century, the Wadden Sea is responsible for the distinctive formations of its many islands, characterised by high sand dunes and lush, wide beaches on the open sea side and a shallow coast towards the mainland.
Local environmentalists blame an international oil consortium now drilling its first well in the shallow waters of Kazakhstan's sector of the Caspian Sea.
The sperm whale, a deep diving species, spent almost nine days in the shallow waters of Oban bay before swimming back out to sea.
Other items likely to be in greater demand include sea-based missile defenses, stealthy submarines suited to shallow-water operations, better airborne and orbital intelligence systems, and weapons for disrupting Chinese networks.
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As a regime it could help you forget most things - you venture into the icy night in swimming costume, psyche yourself up for a few minutes in a shallow outdoor hot-water pool on the dockside, run the 100m or so to the sea and then plunge in, screaming.
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