Sentences with phrase «deep subsurface»
The phrase "deep subsurface" refers to the area far beneath the Earth's surface. It includes layers of rock, groundwater, and other materials found deep underground. Full definition
Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa.
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Maybe there are deep subsurface microbes producing methane, but maybe not.
Oil film simulation diagramming hydrocarbon compositions and behavior from both the initial surface slick as well as deep subsurface plumes resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
In addition, the company has three wells explicitly drilled to monitor the CO2 as it spreads out in the deep subsurface.
We already knew that life in the deep subsurface is sparse.
«We probably would approach the future of Mars exploration — particularly accessing habitable zones of liquid water in the deep subsurface — more cautiously, because life could still be there.
A ravenous predator also survives in these hellish conditions: a roundworm that researchers describe today as the first multicellular organism to be found in the deep subsurface of Earth.
dana1981 - An additional part of that correction is that the deeper subsurface Antarctic waters are (relatively) warmer than surface waters, not colder as stated in the OP.
Although this is the first time researchers have witnessed a deep subsurface rift opening within Antarctic ice, they have seen similar breakups in the Greenland Ice Sheet, in spots where ocean water has seeped inland along the bedrock and begun to melt the ice from underneath.