Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean trenches»

▪ Six Sites That Are the Galapagos For Modern Darwins: Current hotspots of evolution research, from Pacific Ocean trenches to hospital emergency rooms

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From April 20 to July 10, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its partners will probe the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

She and colleagues discovered the deepest fish in 2014 in the western Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench and described the newly named Psuedoliparis swirei November 28 in Zootaxa.

On May 31, 2009, Nereus proved its seafaring mettle and plunged to a depth of 6.8 miles in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.

Other evidence to bolster this claim includes rock sequences from the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

10,250 meters: The depth (a little over 6 miles) at which marine experts have discovered human - caused pollution in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans, located in the Pacific.

When University of Aberdeen researchers encountered an undecipherable molecule from the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, IBM's fine - tuned atomic force microscope helped them complete the puzzle

«In a subsea trench along the coast, the Pacific Ocean floor submerges beneath the continent building up tension that is released in earthquakes,» explains Professor Onno Oncken of the GFZ.

Blockbuster - moviemaker - turned - aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under - explored region of the world's oceans to researchers.

In certain places along the rim of the oceans, especially the Pacific Rim, the seafloor descends abruptly into deep trenches.

One independent swimmer, Nereus, has now reached the Pacific's Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, reports the BBC.

On its first mission, the new vehicle, called Nereus (rhymes with «serious»), explored the deepest part of the ocean, Challenger Deep — a nearly 7 - mile - deep trench east of the Marianas Islands in the western Pacific.

The Nereus team is preparing for a six - week voyage — funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of about $ 1.4 million — beginning in February 2014 to study the Pacific Ocean's Kermadec Trench, which is about 10 kilometers deep.

The Mariana Trench, the deepest landform on Earth, is in the South Pacific Ocean.

Scientists have been attracted to the region because of the subduction zone located at the bottom of the ocean where the Pacific and North American tectonic plates collide, the Aleutian Trench.

The deepest part of the ocean on Earth, the Mariana Trench, is located along the Ring of Fire in the western portion of the Pacific Ocean Bocean on Earth, the Mariana Trench, is located along the Ring of Fire in the western portion of the Pacific Ocean BOcean Basin.

September 2014: New Zealand (Auckland, Rotorua, Hobbiton, Taupo), Kingdom of Tonga (Nuku'Alofa, Haamongaa Maui, Mapuaa Vaea Blowholes, Ha'atafu beach, Oholei beach, Tsunami Rock, Abel Tasman landing site, Captain Cook's landing site), Fiji (Nadi, Pacific Harbour, Levuka, Leleuvia Island, Suva), Samoa (Apia, Lalomano Beach, Falefa, Papapapaitai Waterfall, Sopoaga Waterfall, To Sua Ocean Trench), Australia (Sydney).

The Galapagos trench and many other Pacific, Indian Ocean (possibly related to a SW Pacific biogeographic province) and mid-Atlantic trenches have been slowly «unearthed», until recently the faunal diversity was found to be centred on the Antarctic Ocean.

At least 3,000 pieces of litter, with some dating back 30 years, can be found in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.