Sentences with phrase «deeper ocean layers when»

Not exact matches

Donnelly's team examined cores of sediment sampled from two of the salt pond's deepest points, searching for layers that were deposited when storms violently washed ocean sand into the 65 - acre waterway.

In colder oceans, the separating layer (thermocline) does not form, or only for parts of the year, so phytoplankton at the top receives nutrients from the deeper sea and provides oxygen for the the upper and deeper layers (as well as nutrients, when phytoplankton decomposes).

When the ocean surface is cooler, warmth is taken from the surface into deeper ocean layers that «do not emit heat out of the planet».

Joe Postma is also wrong in assuming solar radiation can heat the Earth's surface to that extent, especially when 70 % of the surface is a thin (say 1 centimetre deep) surface layer of water which transmits most of the radiation down into the ocean thermoclines.

Nor can one be confident that the contribution of subsea volcanic variability to deep - ocean temperature change is negligible in comparison with that from the atmosphere, particularly when the relative densities of the two media and the distance of the benthic layers from the atmosphere are taken into account.

When cold surface water no longer sinks into the depths, a deeper layer of warm ocean water can travel across the continental shelf and reach the bases of glaciers, retaining its heat as the cold waters remain above.