Sentences with phrase «deep sea floor»

She and her colleagues created a model that accurately (to 97 %) replicates known historic solar activity (from ice cores, tree ring data, deep sea floor cores, etc.).
The key to finding the oldest wrecks, he says, is locating «relic surfaces» that have escaped being buried by sediment, which flows downhill and covers the deep sea floor.
Ever since their discovery in the late 1970s, the creatures that dwell in the hot, sulfurous hydrothermal vents of the deep sea floor have captivated marine biologists.
An example of these organisms which most people are familiar with is the firefly... but bioluminescent creatures are found throughout marine habitats, from the ocean surface to the deep sea floor.
The survey disclosed clusters of ridges and lumps protruding from the deep sea floor well beyond a well - charted extension of the continental shelf called the Chukchi Cap.
«A thaw of sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean last year sent extra plant food to exotic creatures on the deep sea floor in a shift that might leave polar bears hungry at the surface, scientists said on Thursday.»
However, thousands of dead marine animals were pulled from the oil - stained waters and evidence has been found of oil killing coral reefs and coating parts of the deep sea floor.
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