Sentences with phrase «hot water oceans»

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One explanation for why the season is so active is that all of the components that make hurricanes are near ideal conditions: The ocean waters are at their warmest they get all year (and are somewhat hotter than usual).

RISING ocean temperatures might leave coral reefs in seriously hot water — without clouds for protection.

Hydrothermal vents pulse hot water out of the seabed and into the ocean.

They can be several tens of metres tall, and grow as minerals are deposited when the hot water meets the cold ocean water at the outlet of the hydrothermal vents.

The world's oceans are currently in the midst of the third major die off — termed bleaching by scientists — ever recorded and the hot waters around Christmas Island have been dealing with the heat for months.

The local acceleration theory posits that the particles gain energy from a local energy source more similar to the way hot ocean water spawns a hurricane above it.

In hot water Coral reefs have been besieged in recent decades by everything from warming waters to ocean acidification, disease, overfishing and pollution.

The waters probed during this study, known as the California Current, are a hot spot of ocean acidification because of coastal upwelling, which brings naturally acidic waters to the surface, where they are made even more acidic by greenhouse gas pollution.

The major influences on ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river transport of material eroded from land into the ocean).

Scientists thought the iron had entered the ocean from hot, mineral - rich water released at mid-ocean vents that then precipitated to the ocean floor.

Instead, Grotzinger says, their model was meant to duplicate how chemicals and sediments might settle out of water in a hot ancient ocean rich with the calcium carbonate typically found in stromatolite layers.

But the dominant theory nowadays is that primitive microorganisms first assembled in hot, chemical - rich water at hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.

His results lend support to the theory that the oceans were formed by water vapour released from the hot interior of the young Earth.

Scientists believe Venus once had oceans, but because of its proximity to the sun the planet became so hot that all the water evaporated, according to NASA.

September 27, 2007, In Hot Water: Ice Age Defrosted, by Warming Ocean, Not Rise in CO2, by David Biello.

Through these vents, volcanic activity in Earth's interior releases hot gases and dissolved minerals into the ocean and heats the water to temperatures of nearly 700 degrees Fahrenheit.

Silica found in the jets can be produced only in water close to boiling point, indicating that hydrothermal vents are also present in the subsurface ocean — making the icy moon a hot target in the search for life.

This is why it's unlikely that anything alive is more likely to be swimming in the depths of a strange ocean than creeping around above water on frozen orbs, even though the complexity of that life (like the stromatolites and creepy blind life forms thriving around undersea hot - water vents) could be limited by how much light can reach so far into the abyss.

This hotter mantle would have made the crust beneath the oceans hotter and thicker than it is today, buoying it up relative to the continents, and the associated shallower ocean basins would have held less water, leading to the flooding of much of what is now land.

Many organic molecules needed for life could even have formed below the ocean floor from interactions between minerals and circulating hot water driven these hydrothermal ven systems.

As the Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain fell that turned to steam upon hitting the still hot surface, then superheated water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.

The second of these zones issues from the developing El Nino in the Eastern Pacific, rides up over the hot «Blob» of ocean water in the Northeastern Pacific, invades Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, and then enters the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

Scientists have discovered unusual hot water vents at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, such as this stone chimney rising three stories above the sea floor.

hydrothermal vent Openings at the bottom of the ocean or a lake where hot water emerges from deep inside the earth.

Over a year ago, scientists uncovered a microbe that lives in hot - water geysers on the ocean floor near Iceland.

The most plausible source of this hydrogen is hydrothermal reactions between hot rocks and water in the ocean beneath the moon's icy surface.

You will recall that hydrothermal vents are plumes of hot water that spew from rocks and cracks along the ocean floor, especially in regions of sea - floor spreading, such as oceanic ridges and rift valleys.

The existence of plumes of «hot water» along the ocean floor had been noted in 1972 (and probably earlier).

«This is crucial since, if corals are bleached by the sudden arrival of hot ocean water and lose the symbiotic algae which are their main source of energy, they will still die,» he cautions.

The researchers think these conditions may exist on the seafloor of Enceladus, where hot water from the interior meets the relatively cold water at the ocean bottom.

This artist's impression of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows that interactions between hot water and rock occur at the floor of the subsurface ocean — the type of environment that might be friendly to life, scientists say.

These ideas changed when oceanographers explored hydrothermal vents, openings in the ocean floor where extremely hot, mineral - rich water erupts from the crust.

On Earth, molecular hydrogen, or H2, enters ocean water where hot hydrothermal vents emerge from the ocean floor.

A lot of the processes are the same as what's imagined is happening on Enceladus; minerals are dissolved in hot water that spews up into the cold ocean, precipitating out.

Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

Writing in Earth's Future, an American Geophysical Union journal, the researchers concluded that both hurricane peaks coincided with periods when surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean were hotter than normal.

With hotter temperatures, more water evaporates off the oceans, and the atmosphere can hold more moisture.

If you become hot during a vigorous Yoga session, you have an optimal cool - down choice of refreshing water — a whole ocean of it, actually.

She suggested that I use products from OSEA, because I grew up by the ocean and my skin would respond well to OSEA's marine - influenced formulations, and that I stop using hot water on my face because of my Irish / Italian background.

Forgetting to set your alarm and waking up to sunlight streaming in through your bedroom window, the feeling of soft green grass on the soles of my bare feet, crisp cool morning air before a hot summer day, steel cut oats with sweet granules of melted brown sugar, the glittery reflection of sunbeams as they softly touch the water, the smell of the forest after it has rained, mornings spent curled up in a hammock loosing yourself in a book, walking everywhere because it's sunny and you can, teaching a first grader how to do a cartwheel, watching the sunrise with someone you love, skinny dipping in the ocean, braiding daisy chains into your hair prior to discovering a spider!

I know what you mean by the water portion, I live on a lake and yeah, I am not real keen about sticking my face in it and then after the stingray encounter in the ocean last Saturday I would have been a hot mess all around!

After hiking and reveling in the scenery, take a moment to relax at The Esalen Hot Springs — rest up in the warm waters while taking in views of the Pacific Ocean.

I love the ocean and go as often as I can in fact I love anything to do with the water, a lake, a river, a stream, the ocean, the hot tub thats where I want to be.

Enlisting on a British ship so he can search the ocean, Henry finds himself in hot water when he oversteps his rank and tells his naval captain that he is making a wrong turn.

Technically they say it can withstand being submerged in 2 meters of fresh water, and they recommend taking some extra precautions if it ever gets dropped in a hot tub, bath tub, a swimming pool, in ocean water, etc..

All open bodies of water, including pools, oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds and even hot tubs can pose a threat to your pet if left unsupervised.

From the towering mountains of the Drakensberg to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean with no fewer than five Blue Flag beaches, KwaZulu Natal is a subtropical, densely vegetated land of hot, humid summers and enviable winters.

A serene water feature, pool and hot tub have ocean views, but lead from the shoreline back into a private terrace area with a sitting area and barbecue.

With stunning lush landscapes, sunny black sand beaches, crystal clear ocean waters, exotic plants, dormant volcanos, and hot springs, São Miguel is the perfect vacation destination for nature lovers, beach bums, or those looking for an off - the beaten path European summer destination.

With stunning lush landscapes, exotic plants, dormant volcanos, hot springs, and crystal clear ocean waters on all sides, São Miguel is the perfect vacation destination for nature lovers and those looking for an off - the beaten path European destination.