Sentences with phrase «zechstein seabed»

A few decades from now, all the equipment needed to process oil may be installed on the seabed.

To reach the oil, it has had to drill horizontally up to 8 miles out below the seabed, setting one world record after another for the longest wells ever drilled.

However, a lot more seabed mapping and sampling is required for them to understand the real hazard of tsunamis posed by these landslides, or whether it will happen again.

The report mentions that the explosion would have caused significant flooding in Kent, but that the nuclear option would be «100 per cent effective» at ensuring «totally irreversible total collapse, rupture [of] tunnel and seabed to cause total flooding and complete collapse of part of tunnel.»

Much of the new search zone was already scanned during an early phase of the first seabed search, before Australian scientists refined their calculations and moved their focus further south.

Approximately 90 % of excavated seabed would be returned to the ocean floor along with tailings, creating a sediment plume approximately 1000 square kilometres in size.

The process involves the excavation of seabed materials which are processed on a floating platform to extract iron ore.

I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.

The EEZ Act was enacted in 2013 to provide a regulatory framework to manage the environmental effects of offshore resource development such as oil exploration and seabed mining.

Marine fossils are found in mountains when ancient seabeds are thrust up and made into mountain ranges over many millions of years.

On top of that geologists have shown from seabed core samples and ice core samples that there was no global flood.

Scallops and prawns are no better — they are caught by bottom trawling, destroying wide areas of seabed and all coral and growth below;

Route 11 Potato Chips gains fans because of the high - quality ingredients it sources for its kettle - style chips, such as unrefined sea salt from an ancient seabed in Utah.

A concentrated transdermal magnesium mineral supplement, our absorbable magnesium oil contains only raw, ultra pure magnesium chloride and other trace minerals drawn from the Ancient Zechstein Seabed in Northern Europe.

MINED IN USA — Mined in Utah since 1958 from an ancient seabed protected from modern pollution.

The proposal covers demersal fish stocks, ie fish that live and feed at the bottom of the seabed, and bring a significant income to the fisheries sector in the region.

Swimming in warm, calm, clear waters, diving down to bright seabeds, teaming with life, building ditches and sandcastles, or exploring the coastline on a boat are unforgettable experiences for the whole family.

It is now hoping drilling for oil and gas located under the seabed will boost the Islands» economy.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea established a regulation body, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), to watch over the exploitation of the seabed.

It is a bit different, however, for the seabed under the international waters.

Generally, you need approval from the ISA for commercial operations affecting the seabed (with a few exceptions such as the sea cables that I already mentioned, and pipelines, too).

The Bonga Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel receives crude and gas from production wells on the seabed and has the capacity to produce 225,000 barrels of oil and 210 million standard cubic feet of gas per day.

If you drive south on the New York State Thruway you will see barges hammering pilings into the seabed of the Hudson River.

• Responsibility for the management of the crown estate's economic assets in Scotland, including the crown estates's seabed and mineral and fishing rights, and the revenue generated from these assets, will be transferred to the Scottish parliament.

2 Under the Ocean Floor Several teams are currently hunting for life beneath the seabed.

Two days later the rig sank, leaving the well gushing in the seabed.

That could be one reason Russia, Denmark, and Canada are tussling over the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater formation rising 10,500 feet above the Arctic seabed.

Divers from the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica monitor heated panels, designed to mimic ocean warming, on the seabed near Adelaide Island.

British Antarctic Survey scientists placed panels equipped with heating elements on the seabed in Antarctica and warmed the devices by either 1 or 2 degrees Celsius.

Sander Houben of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues studied fossilised dinoflagellates — a type of plankton — in sediment cores from the Antarctic seabed to find out how these changes affected marine life.

On August 2, a pair of 18 - ton Russian submersibles, Mir - I and Mir - II, plunged more than two miles down into the Arctic Ocean and planted a titanium capsule containing their nation's flag on the seabed at the North Pole.

Seabed explorer and former top government scientist Sylvia Earle is angry at events in the Gulf — but still hopeful about the planet's prospects

It has been so well preserved by the sandy seabed that weevils sit in the grain stores, human skeletons lie undisturbed in their graves, and a mysterious stone circle still stands as it was first erected.

Jellyfish carrion carpets the seabed, suggesting it is not a favourite food.»

In fact, as far back as the 1970s scientists found layers of salt several hundred metres thick on the seabed.

Confirmation arrived in February this year, when an international team extracted 34 sediment cores from three sites on the seabed, revealing a fossilised coral reef that reaches 110 metres into the sea floor.

David Valentine and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, surveyed the sea floor and discovered the mounds, the largest of which rises 20 metres above the seabed, made from tar.

Marine biologist, seabed explorer and former top US government scientist Sylvia Earle tells Phil McKenna how she helped to change George W. Bush's mind — and why she is angry about the methods being used to clean up the Gulf oil spill

Valentine says they formed as sticky hydrocarbons seeped from the seabed around 40,000 years ago.

That article about «seabed scars» quoted European officials as saying it is likely that some CO2 would leak eventually.

The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

It means that bacteria living in, say, seabed mud where no oxygen penetrates, can access oxygen dissolved in the seawater simply by holding hands with their friends.

Signs of stagnant CO2 - rich water have now been discovered 3700 metres beneath the Southern Ocean's seabed, between Antarctica and South Africa.

The first hint of its existence came in 2007, when seismic and sonar measurements revealed odd ridges and lagoons on the seabed.

As for the increase in phosphorus content, it was caused by the phosphorus that in the summer of 2014 flowed in from the deep waters in the north of the Baltic Sea main basin and the phosphorus that was released from the Gulf of Finland's own seabed in the poor oxygen conditions and mixed with the surface layer during last winter.

Porter examined fossils from the Chuar Group in the Grand Canyon — once an ancient seabed — that are between 782 and 742 million years old.

The mat had previously covered the seabed like a coating of plastic wrap, leaving the underlying sediments largely anoxic and off limits to animals.

Hydrogen sulphide is a widespread, extremely toxic compound in the Baltic Sea's seabed environment that is devoid of oxygen.

In Namibia, China and other spots around the world, researchers have collected rocks that were once ancient seabeds, and analysed the amounts of iron, molybdenum and other metals in them.

Sperling says that the need to avoid predators (and pursue prey) may have driven animals into the water column above the seabed, where enhanced oxygen levels enabled them to expend energy through swimming.