Sentences with phrase «deposited along the ocean floor»

Many researchers believe iron - metabolizing microbes might have turned plentiful dissolved iron into minerals, which then settled out of seawater and deposited along the ocean floor.

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The researchers on the project will continue to map the ocean floor along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge for potential mineral deposits, using images from echo sounders and remotely operated submersible vessels.

Most of the deposits, some small and some large, are buried in or below permafrost and sediments in the ocean bottom along continental margins — where shallow offshore waters slope down toward the deeper ocean floor.

Slowly, the carbonate rocks will be eroded and carried by rivers to the oceans, deposited to the ocean floor and, eventually, subducted along the oceanic / continental plate boundaries.