Sentences with phrase «deeper oceanic crust»
But an open question is whether the flood also tore through the eastern Mediterranean, over a seafloor cliff separating the shallower continental crust in the west from the deeper oceanic crust in the east.
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«This study is the first geophysical observation that large magma chambers exist in the deep oceanic crust below.»
Not exact matches
Only during the second marked increase in atmospheric oxygen content 600 million years ago did the deep ocean become fully oxidised, which allowed the oceanic crust to gain the «fingerprint» of high uranium - 238.
A remote expedition to the deepest layer of the Earth's oceanic crust has revealed a new ecosystem living over a kilometre beneath our feet.
Carbonates are important constituents of marine sediments and are heavily involved in the planet's deep carbon cycle, primarily due to oceanic crust sinking into the mantle, a process called subduction.
Magma that's mostly from the deeper mantle, however, doesn't produce a lot of lithium, neither does magma melted from oceanic crust.
Researchers from the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) at the Arctic University of Norway have discovered a growing Arctic abiotic methane - and methane hydrate — charged sediment drift on oceanic crust in the deep Fram Strait of the Arctic Ocean.