Sentences with phrase «fresh ocean bottom»

Though states may be eager to get on with exploiting fresh ocean bottom, the recent flood of applications means those late in the game can expect to wait decades for final recommendations unless the commission itself is radically reformed.

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I haven't had time to read all of these postings — let alone Jim Hansens DIRE piece (though I DID just download it and I will do so; and Thank You, by the way, for telling the WHOLE SCARY Truth Dr. Hansen); but, out of what I did scan, I didn't seem to notice any references having been made in regards to the possibility that the Fresh Meltwater comming off of the Greenland Ice Sheets — and them plunging striaght to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean — could shut down the so - called «Atlantic Conveyor».

As the Atlantic Ocean's water gets fresher from the melting ice caps, the warm, saline, and more dense Gulf Stream sinks further south, taking the warmer water with to the bottom of the oOcean's water gets fresher from the melting ice caps, the warm, saline, and more dense Gulf Stream sinks further south, taking the warmer water with to the bottom of the oceanocean.

However the additional over burden of water, fresh and salt to each part of any ocean or extremely large body of water causes the deflection of the bottom of that basin to some extant as well as presenting as a rise in seal level at that area.

Melt already running out from the continent forms a fresh water lens that pushes these warmer waters toward the ocean bottom.

Two items: the first, the layered Ocean currents, fresh water on top, then the warmer but saltier layer and finally the deep bottom layer.