Sentences with phrase «abyssal plains»

The bathymetry of the ocean bottom is marked by fault block ridges, abyssal plains, ocean deeps, and basins.

If the temperature of the water generally across the abyssal plains increased a half degree in a century, that would be a good indication that climate has changed in general.

Abyssal plains begin at the edge of the continental margin and continue into the ocean depths.

The key deep - sea habitats are the abyssal plains, hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, cold - water corals, seamounts (underwater mountains) and the deep - water column.

Animals living on the abyssal plains, miles below the ocean surface, don't usually get much to eat.

The ridge rises as high as 15,000 feet above the surrounding abyssal plains.

There is a census of coastal waters and a census of the abyssal plains, a census of coral reefs and a census of seamounts.

Whereas the nodules are scattered across the deep abyssal plains of the oceans, hundreds of miles from shore and typically three miles or more below the surface, many of the sulfide deposits are close to a coastline; also, they are always on undersea mountains and therefore located in much shallower water.

Sea cucumbers, or holothurians, normally seen crawling incredibly slowly over the flat abyssal plains of the ocean floor, were found on steep slopes, small ledges and rock faces of the underwater mountain range.

The flat abyssal plains of soft silt haven't managed to avoid cable troubles either.

Cascadia Basin - 2,660 m, Sensors measure the weight of passing tsunamis on abyssal plain; 6.

Plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cables that connect the research stations stretch across the continental shelf, plummet down the slope and across an abyssal plain, and skirt hydrothermal vents near a mid-ocean ridge where the Earth gives birth to new ocean crust.

«Marine biology: Feast and famine on the abyssal plain.»

For over 20 years, Smith and his fellow researchers have studied animals living on the abyssal plain at Station M — a deep - sea research site about 220 kilometers (140 miles) off the Central California coast.

Both the continental shelf and the abyssal plain have been surveyed more or less extensively.

Deep underneath the open sea lies the other major topographic surface of the seafloor, the relatively flat abyssal plain.

It is the meeting point between the continental rise and the abyssal plain that marks the margin's outer edge.

The researchers examined sediments from waters only 980 meters deep, which is much shallower than the abyssal plain.

For the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, Abyssal Plain: Geometry of the Immortals saw the creation of a concrete theatre built around the existing rock of the sea bed.

The new seamount is small but unusual in its isolation (at least we think it's isolated — remember we didn't know it was there — and I suspect there are many others that we don't know about)-- but this one is sitting in the middle of nowhere in the abyssal plain and will only add to the mysteries of the origin of this part of the Arctic.

RELATED TOPICS Abyssal Plain Submarine Canyons Coral Reefs Sea Mounts Mid-ocean Ridges Volcanic Islands Deep Ocean Trenches

In the Indian Ocean, the proposed South Asia Gas Enterprise Pvt. Ltd. (SAGE) pipeline between Oman and northern India proposes laying a gas pipeline as deep as 3,000 meters across a 750 - kilometer abyssal plain.

In the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, about 350 miles (560 kilometers) southwest of Ireland, Lampitt and his colleagues collected marine snow and the creatures that consume it at different depths.