Delaware QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau. The Art of Storytelling : Delaware Art Museum. 29/08/13: Delaware shellfish aquaculture bill signed; Gray Aquaculture files for bankruptcy protection; ocean acidification can affect microbes. Delaware, USA became the final east coast state to have a shellfish aquaculture industry after an aquaculture bill was passed on August 28, 2013. It's hoped the new shellfish aquaculture industry will provide economic benefits and improve water quality in the state's inland bays.
Canada salmon company, Gray Aquaculture has filed for bankruptcy protection days after the Supreme Court ordered the company to pay a $650,000 outstanding bill for feed. The protection gives the company 30 days to restructure its finances. Gray Aquaculture suffered from three outbreaks of ISA over the last year which cost the company greatly. At present the company represents 10-15 percent of aquaculture production in Newfoundland. Ocean acidification can affect microbes according to research conducted at the University of Western Australia. "There has been very little work done so far on the microbial responses to ocean acidification in the benthic (sea floor) zone," said lead author Dr Bonnie Laverock. Problem-Based Learning at University of Delaware.
Delaware Basin. Exposed and buried parts of Capitan Reef. Blue area shows area once flooded by the Delaware Sea. Geology[edit] By earliest Permian time, during the Wolfcampian Epoch, the ovoid shaped subsiding Delaware Basin extended over 10,000 square miles (26,000 km²) in what is now western Texas.[1]:193§1 This period of deposition left a thickness of 1600 to 2200 feet (490 to 670 m) of limestone interbedded with dark-colored shale.[1]:193§1 A narrow outlet that geologists call the Hovey Channel periodically supplied new seawater from the Panthalassa Ocean to the west. The somewhat smaller and shallower Midland Basin was just east and the much smaller Marfa Basin was to the southwest.
Subsidence of the Delaware Basin restarted later in the mid Permian and by the Guadalupian Epoch of the upper Permian the patch reefs had grown larger. Rapid subsidence of the basin started in the middle Guadalupian. Subsidence of the basin stopped for good by the later part of the Guadalupian. See also[edit]