Sentences with phrase «beneath the ocean floor»

Samples from a mud volcano contain biological signatures that suggest microbes lived in the material when it was rock several kilometres beneath the ocean floor

But geophysicist David Goldberg of Columbia University's Lamont — Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., and his colleagues found that pumping such CO2 into basalt rock beneath the ocean floor might be a better solution.

In the future, when fossil fuels are no longer the leading source of energy around the world and oil platforms aren't pumping oil from beneath the ocean floor, we won't have to worry about oil spills, but unfortunately, ocean pollution from spills, leaks and other sources is still a reality.

The sound blasts reflected from the boundaries between rock layers a few miles beneath the ocean floor were picked up by an five - mile - long «streamer,» or hose containing many hydrophones, towed just beneath the surface behind the ship.

This effort was one of the latest in a series of territorial gambits in the Arctic, where a substantial proportion of the world's energy reserves — mostly in oil and methane — may reside beneath the ocean floor.

The discovery of a vast lake of liquid carbon dioxide beneath the ocean floor off Taiwan has startled earth scientists and raised hopes for a new strategy against carbon dioxide — related global warming.

Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast - spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas (H2), a new Duke University study suggests.

The proposed seismic surveys will use arrays of airguns towed behind ships as they explore for oil and gas deposits beneath the ocean floor.

«A lot of interesting things are happening beneath the ocean floor that we don't understand.

17 Scientists at Oregon State University have identified vast reservoirs of water beneath the ocean floor.

«Seismologists have observed anomalies in their velocity data as deep as 200 kilometers [124 miles] beneath the ocean floor,» Dasgupta said.

In this world milk is in short supply, forcing the young feline population to drill into the untapped reserves of full - fat white stuff beneath the ocean floor.

Gas hydrates are formed under cold temperature and high pressure conditions beneath the ocean floor.

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Samples from a mud volcano contain biological signatures that suggest microbes lived in the material when it was several kilometres beneath the ocean floor.

Fishermen have pulled up basketball - size chunks of hydrate in their nets, and other researchers have scooped it from beneath the ocean floor.

Somewhere in the sediments and rocks beneath the ocean floor, it gets too hot for living things.

A multinational team on board the research vessel Joides Resolution, a «floating laboratory», is about to collect sediment samples from 1.5 kilometres beneath the ocean floor.