Sentences with phrase «deep sea sample»

The samples were globally distributed throughout the surface oceans (only one deep sea sample) and represented diverse environmental conditions.

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This age was based on isotopic dating of 5 meteorites and a representative sample of modern Earth lead from a Pacific deep - sea sediment, all of which plot along a linear isochron on a graph of 207Pb / 204Pb versus 206Pb / 204Pb (Patterson, 1956).

To find out more about how they manage to survive, Brandon Briggs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Frederick Colwell at Oregon State University in Corvallis have sequenced and compared genomes belonging to one particular class of deep life — Firmicutes bacteria — sampled 21, 40 and 554 metres below the floor of the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

This research evolved into the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the gloSea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the glosea - floor sediment around the globe.

The original samples were excavated from the deep sea, where oxygen is scarce and the organisms» metabolism is extremely slow.

Over a five - month period from December 2004 to April 2005, the traps collected samples of sediments and larva while the meters recorded deep - sea current velocities.

This is only the third hydrothermal system of its type that has been sampled, yet millions of similar environments exist in the deep sea.

The samples came mostly from dead squid that had been found washed up on beaches or floating on the ocean surface, although a few came from animals that were accidentally caught by deep - sea trawlers.

This picture may be about to change in light of a study of deep - sea rocks and sediments led by John Parkes, a microbiologist at Cardiff University in the U.K.. By visiting oil - drilling projects at two sites in the Pacific in 2002, Parkes and colleagues obtained samples as deep as 400 meters beneath the seafloor.

They will handle rare rock samples and examine deep - sea creatures pulled up from the depths, including crustaceans, bizarre tube worms and flocculent orange and yellow microbial mats.

The samples were globally distributed throughout the surface oceans (only one deep - sea sample) and represented diverse environmental conditions.

On May 25, the team, which includes co-principal investigators Louis Whitcomb, a professor of mechanical engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, and Dana Yoerger of WHOI who were responsible for development of the vehicle's navigation and control system, conducted a planned sequence of successively deeper dives — testing Nereus, making scientific observations and collecting deep - sea samples at each depth they reached.

The Lamont - Doherty Core Repository contains a unique and important collection of scientific samples from the deep sea.

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I've come across one site — http://www.climate-ocean.com/ — that argues that it wasn't the sampling, but the effect that military actions had on the sea surface, by mixing in cooler deeper water.

Scientists dig deep into the rock and sand of the sea floor to sample Earth's climate history many millions of years ago, since the oldest ice cores go back only 850,000 years.

We will collect samples at the ocean floor and use a new type of robot to obtain information on the state of the deep - sea ecosystems.

Normally, such fossils would be deep underwater, but the geologically active part of New Guinea where the team collected its samples has been rising from the sea at a fast pace, exposing ancient reefs that would otherwise be nearly impossible to find.

Tung and co-author Xianyao Chen of the Ocean University of China, who was a UW visiting professor last year, used recent observations of deep - sea temperatures from Argo floats that sample the water down to 6,500 feet (2,000 meters) depth.

Using evidence garnered from samples of glacial cores and deep sea sediment, paleoclimatologists can find patterns in the natural changes of the past and use them to predict future changes.

These biogeographic provinces are based on sampling undertaken by human - occupied vehicles and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and for the most part lie within the tropics and sub-tropics, where deep submergence operations are less limited by prevailing sea conditions than at high latitudes [6], [9].

The geologists, who publish their research in the new issue Nature Geoscience, say that measures of carbon which are taken from deep sea core samples are probably not accurate.

Well, just before the New Year, and while looking for a routine «crab sample,» scientists aboard the 211 - foot - long Exploration Vessel (E / V) Nautilus happened to capture footage of this neon burst of beauty in the Revillagigedo Archipelago off Baja California, Mexico, at 1225 metres (4,019 feet) below sea level, via their remotely controlled deep water vehicle, dubbed Hercules.

These estimates resulted from studies of air bubbles recovered in ice cores from deep within Antarctica, Greenland and other glaciers, as well as chemical analyses of coral samples from beneath the sea.