Sentences with phrase «buried under the ocean»

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Tankers docking at the station would have regasified the fuel and pumped it through pipes buried at least 15 feet under the ocean bottom, including a 22 - mile - long main that would hook up to an existing delivery system.

This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

Europa probably hosts a vast saltwater ocean buried under a thick icy shell.

Scientists estimate the ocean is 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick — 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans — and is buried under a 95 - mile (150 - kilometer) crust of mostly ice.

BURY IT UNDER THE SEA Some research groups have tried fertilizing the ocean with iron to encourage massive plankton blooms that suck carbon dioxide from the air.

With the rising levels of BPA and other plastic chemicals found in our groundwater, ocean water, and even buried under 30 feet of ice at the south pole, experts warn that these chemicals may be contributing to the rising health problems we are seeing worldwide.

In the study, Bärbel Hönisch, a geochemist at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, and her colleagues reconstructed CO2 levels by analyzing the shells of single - celled plankton buried under the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Africa.

Calcium carbonate is essentially insoluble compared to bicarbonate so insofar as shells rain down to the deep ocean or get buried under sediment on the continental shelfs this removes CO2 and calcium as well.