Sentences with phrase «above seafloor»

This breaking is often spectacular, with turbulent structures observed hundreds of meters above the seafloor, and driving turbulence dissipations and mixing up to 10,000 times open - ocean levels.

Collaborating with colleagues in US and Germany on the important issue of sea - air flux of greenhouse gases above seafloor methane seeps has been rewarding for all of the researchers involved.»

For example, an engineer may give a robot a list of goal locations to explore, along with any time constraints, as well as physical directions, such as staying a certain distance above the seafloor.

For example, an engineer may give a robot a list of goal locations to explore, along with any time constraints, as well as physical directions, such as staying a certain distance above the seafloor.

They suspended conical «sediment traps» above the seafloor to collect and measure the amount of marine snow falling through the water.

At night, sand lance burrow into the seabed or form horizontal schools just above the seafloor.

They towed cameras above the seafloor, dredged rock samples from promising locales, and went down to have a look whenever they could score access to a submersible.

Hot geysers of water, such as those on Axial's flanks, rise only a few hundred feet above the seafloor, then diffuse like a pall of low - hanging smoke.

All of a sudden, we started getting a bunch of plumelike signals up here» — the oceanographer raises his hands, indicating a point high above the seafloor — «in an area where there shouldn't have been any plumes.

Not exact matches

A study published Aug. 28, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds a new dimension to the controversial decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants immediately above the crippled oil well at the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

GPS and acoustic data reveal very large seafloor movements associated with the quake directly above the focal region.

When lava from Axial Volcano covered older flows on the seafloor (above), there was an eruption of life.

The issue of CO2 leakage with offshore sequestration came to the forefront last year, after a Nature article raised concerns about unexpected fractures above Statoil ASA's Sleipner natural gas project in the North Sea, where 1 million metric tons of CO2 has been injected annually below the seafloor since the mid-1990s.

MBARI's yellow, torpedo - shaped seafloor - mapping AUV spent two days flying about 50 meters above the bottom of the Basin, using sound beams to map the depth and shape of the seafloor.

On the Alarcón Rise, massive, dark - colored sulfide chimneys rise more than 37 meters (120 feet) above the lava - covered seafloor.

The heat expands the water, percolating it through the loose layer above and shooting it through a seafloor laced with sulfur, methane, iron, and other chemicals.

Above the chamber are the relics of past intrusions of the magma to the seafloor's surface.

One sees the seafloor as a suddenly squeezed sponge; the other sees it as a large hot plate heating the water above.

The hydrate is extremely unstable; as it gets buried deeper by fresh sediment falling on the seafloor above, it warms enough to release its methane again.

Over time the smokers come and go, and the chimneys that form above them grow and topple, such that they can eventually build up a massive mound on the seafloor.

The sensors from the pit and from the seafloor above are all linked in a network of cables that sends real - time observations to monitoring stations and to local governments and businesses.

A coastal glacier's response to a warming climate depends heavily not only on the depth of the seafloor in front of it, as explained above, but on the shape of the bedrock below it.

Other drilling platforms stand above the sea surface on legs that are rooted in the seafloor.

It rises up from the seafloor and may come to just above or just under the water's surface.

None of the above addresses the fate of CH4 once it leaves the seafloor.

They are deploying a tactic called counter-illumination — they emit just enough light to match the moonlight from above, effectively erasing their shadows from the seafloor so that predators can't stalk them by the dark shape below.

And along the way, the expedition is garnering some attention with incredible images of the seafloor and the wildlife above as well, both of which you can see on the following pages.