Sentences with phrase «around seamounts»

Deep - sea corals that thrive on and around seamounts host more than 1,300 different species of animals; some are unique to seamounts themselves and some live only on a specific species of coral.

A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.

Every year they gathered around seamounts and rotated in a slow - motion courting dance, circling during the day and dispersing at night for weeks.

This finding suggests that any human activities that alter the seafloor, such as potential deep - sea mining, could have a big impact on communities of marine life around the seamount.

The sun was not yet in the sky and we arrived around the seamount named Karang Bayang (Shadow Reef, in Bahasa Indonesia).

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Something — perhaps a seamount on the sinking plate — pinned the high - slip patch of fault in place for 500 or 1000 years, they argue, while patches around it failed repeatedly in smaller quakes.

Around many seamounts in the Indian Ocean, which are often productive fishing areas, the team found accumulations of discarded fishing gear.

There are nearly 20 dive sites around this volcanic seamount, which is home to some 260 species of fish.

This mesmerizing creature was spotted at a depth of around 3,700 meters (2.3 miles) during Dive 4 of NOAA's 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas, exploring an underwater mountain range that has been nicknamed «Enigmatic Seamount».

Lesson 1 - Plate Tectonics Lesson 2 - Mid-Ocean Ridges Lesson 3 - Deep - Sea Corals Lesson 4 - Subduction Zones Lesson 5 - Chemosynthesis and Hydrothermal Vent Life Lesson 6 - Deep - Sea Benthos Lesson 7 - Water Cycle Lesson 8 - Ocean Currents Lesson 9 - Ocean Waves Lesson 10 - Tides Lesson 11 - Energy from the Oceans Lesson 12 - Food, Water, and Medicine from the Sea Lesson 13 - Hurricanes Lesson 14 - Seamounts An average of 2,000 strong earthquakes and large volcanic eruptions occur every year all around the world.

If this is taken into account, it can be concluded that POC export fluxes increase while the passing waters are advected around and over the seamount, with the highest export fluxes occurring on the downstream side of the seamount.