oceanite

oceanite

[′ō·shə‚nīt]
(petrology)
A picritic basalt in which olivine is a great deal more abundant than plagioclase.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Oceanites oceanicus "golondrina de mar de Wilson" y Oceanodroma markhami "golondrina de mar de Markham", regitradas en la orilla marina eventualmente.
Ciento quince anos de registros de aves en Pantanos de Villa
A Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, in flight
Rangers on mission to track down rare seabird
Throughout June and July, Wilson's Petrels Oceanites oceanicus had been well represented and numbers had risen to a maximum count of 45 on 28th June.
Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Oceanodroma monorhis: new to the waters of the United Arab Emirates
Hay cinco especies de habitos oceanicos que llegan muy eventualmente a las costas de la isla, o que han sido vistas en el mar, como Oceanites oceanicus (Clark, 1902), por lo que no es de extranar la ausencia de su registro en este trabajo.
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But it's wrong to say that the Adelie gang are moving out, because Adelies are site-specific nesters, according to Ron Naveen, founder of Oceanites, a US-based science and educational foundation.
All eyes on the ice: like a giant white scoresheet, the Antarctic Peninsula is daily recording changes in the environment. And change is occurring more rapidly there than almost anywhere else on Earth
He's also the founder and president of Oceanites (OHshun-AYE-tees), the nonprofit funding organ for the Antarctic Site Inventory.
March of the tourists: Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand?
Research conducted by Oceanites, a non-profit organisation based in the US, supports the view that tourism has had little or no negative effect on animal or plant life--yet.
Tip of the icebergs
Some baseline data on specific site visits are beginning to be compiled through projects such as the USA-based "Oceanites" Antarctic Peninsula site inventory project (Naveen, 1999; Kriwoken and Rootes, 2000).
A review of tourism research in the polar regions
Others, such as Wilson's petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), only migrate from the temperate areas of one hemisphere to those of the other.
2 Pelagic life
Cryptic species including prions (Pachyptila sp.), white-chinned petrels (Procellaria aequinoctialis), Wilson's storm-petrels (Oceanites oceanicus), and black-bellied storm-petrels (Fregetta tropica) showed a significant interest in DMS-scented slicks as compared with control slicks, whereas more visible species such as Cape petrels (Daption capense) and black-browed, grey-headed, and wandering albatrosses showed no noticeable differences in their responses to the two slicks.
Olfactory Foraging by Antarctic Procellariiform Seabirds: Life at High Reynolds Numbers
At Ardenest (Waikari, North Canterbury), remains of Grey-backed storm petrel (Oceanites nereis) were found at a deposit accumulated by Laughing owls (Sceloglaux albifacies; Worthy and Holdaway 1996).
Soil indicators of pre-European seabird breeding in New Zealand at sites identified by predator deposits

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