Sentences with phrase «deep subsurface of»

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.

Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa.

Not exact matches

Yet a deep hole discovered on the moon could one day be the entrance to a subsurface base that would keep colonists safe from the ravages of space.

Data from a 1970s international research effort to explore the subsurface of the region, called the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, found tantalizing geophysical evidence — seismic and electrical resistivity data — that hinted at liquid water deep below.

Although geologists can use seismic data from large earthquakes to see features deep in the earth, the shallow subsurface geology of the park has remained a mystery, because mapping it out would require capturing everyday miniature ground movement and seismic energy on a much smaller scale.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.

Even as phytoplankton blooms sequester new carbon, the upwelling of deep, subsurface water currents in the region bring old, once - sequestered carbon back to the surface waters, allowing for exchange with the atmosphere.

The potential exploration of other deep sea or subsurface ecosystems will raise other «Schrödinger's cat» dilemmas.

Among other things, GRACE may have found a crater deep under the Antarctic ice that may mark an asteroid impact greater than the one that doomed the dinosaurs, measured the seafloor displacement that triggered the tsunami of 2004, and quantified changes in subsurface water in the Amazon and Congo river basins.

With his ground - penetrating radar, Michele Pipan, a geophysicist at the University of Trieste, gradually mapped the subsurface structures (some three to four meters deep) below the 500 - meter shore perimeter.

«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.

Meanwhile, the lander will keep digging and analyzing deeper — toward the subsurface ice reported last week (ScienceNOW, 20 June), in search of water's history on Mars.

The subsurface oceans that are believed to exist on Europa and Enceladus, would have conditions similar to the deep oceans of Earth where tardigrades are found, volcanic vents providing heat in an environment devoid of light.

Quantifying the global hydrogen budget is key to understanding the amount of Earth's biomass that is in the subsurface, as many deep ecosystems contain chemolithotrophic — so - called «rock - eating» — organisms that consume hydrogen.

The most popular explanations today are that it was either born as an inflating half dome of magma squeezed in between subsurface layers of rock or within a conduit deep inside a volcano.

Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans, naturally leading to the question of life, said one co-investigator with NASA's New Horizon mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Conditions in its subsurface global water ocean are thought to be similar to those deep in Earth's oceans, where a wide variety of life thrives.

The science of Deep Earth Imaging will help us more precisely image subsurface rock properties to unlock the potential of this vast and relatively under - explored area.

No one knows the origin of this ice, but one possibility is that ice - rich bodies, such as comets, left part of their ice deep in the subsurface following impact.

We're developing Deep Earth Imaging technology to allow geologists to create precise images of subsurface rock properties, as if the regolith material is transparent.

The Deep Earth Imaging Future Science Platform aims to more precisely and more accurately image the subsurface and understand its geophysical and geochemical properties, unlocking the resource potential of a vast, under - explored part of Australia.

Once ignited, these fires are particularly difficult to extinguish despite extensive rains, weather changes or firefighting attempts, and can persist for long periods of time (months, years), spreading deep (5 meters) and over extensive areas of forest subsurface.

Yan, X-H., H. Su, and W. Zhang, 2014: Contribution of global subsurface and deeper ocean warming to recent global surface warming hiatus.

The improved simulation of ENSO amplitude is mainly due to the reasonable representation of the thermocline and thermodynamic feedbacks: On the one hand, the deeper mean thermocline results in a weakened thermocline response to the zonal wind stress anomaly, and the looser vertical stratification of mean temperature leads to a weakened response of anomalous subsurface temperature to anomalous thermocline depth, both of which cause the reduced thermocline feedback in g2; on the other hand, the alleviated cold bias of mean sea surface temperature leads to more reasonable thermodynamic feedback in g2.

This suggests that the Tambora subsurface temperature and sea level perturbations could last well into the 20th century, interfering with the effects of the devastating Krakatau, Santa Maria, and Katmai eruptions which occurred respectively in 1883, 1902, and 1912, producing a cumulative impact on the deep ocean thermal structure in the 20th century.

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.

This includes maintaining Argo, the main system for monitoring ocean heat content, and the development of Deep Argo to monitor the lower half of the ocean; the use of ship - based subsurface ocean temperature monitoring programs; advancements in robotic technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor waters adjacent to land (like islands or coastal regions); and further development of real - or near - real - time deep ocean remote sensing methDeep Argo to monitor the lower half of the ocean; the use of ship - based subsurface ocean temperature monitoring programs; advancements in robotic technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor waters adjacent to land (like islands or coastal regions); and further development of real - or near - real - time deep ocean remote sensing methdeep ocean remote sensing methods.

Another big outcome is a deeper understanding of the roles subsurface microbes play in globally important carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles.

And in fact, recent observational (Lavender et al., 2000; Fischer and Schott, 2002; Bower et al., 2009) and modeling studies (Gary et al., 2011; Lozier et al., 2010) of subsurface floats have revealed that the DWBC is not the sole, and perhaps not even the dominant, conduit for the transport of the waters within the deep limb of the AMOC.

While such models lack adequate observational datasets of subsurface soil properties and / or geology, it is clear that the time scale for deep permafrost thaw is measured in centuries, not years.