Sentences with phrase «from sea floor»

In the 1970s, the first comprehensive analysis of oxygen isotopes in sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch.

The warmer seas then continue to thaw and thus release even more methane deposits from the sea floor.

A paper on the methane venting from the sea floor also noted that a very small portion of methane held in the sea bed could trigger massive CO2 rises, thus temps.

The second paper is from atmospheric tests from» 08 - ’09 and finds that at that time methane escaping from the sea floor was not making it to the atmosphere.

NATURE GEOSCIENCE LETTER Widespread methane leakage from the sea floor on the northern US Atlantic margin

According to the invention, sediments including clathrate - rich material disturbed from the sea floor are carried upward, with the aid of injection gas.

Any increase in acid entering the oceans is likely to lead to an increase in dissolution of calcium carbonate from the sea floor.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 — Methane bubbles from the sea floor could, in theory, sink ships and may explain the odd disappearances of some vessels, Australian researchers reported Tuesday.

Most of the methane gas that emerges from the sea floor dissolves in the water column and oxidizes to CO2 instead of reaching the atmosphere.

Scientists devised ingenious techniques to recover evidence from the distant past, first from deposits left on land, then also from sea floor sediments, and then still better by drilling deep into ice.

Fear of seas swamping the land, boulders being sucked from the sea floor, generally being boiled, fried, roasted or toasted!

To measure how the system has shifted over long timescales, researchers collected long cores of sediment from the sea floor.

Much of the color likely comes from resuspended sediment dredged up from the sea floor in shallow waters.

Further on you write: «However, the transport of CO2 from the sea floor to the atmosphere is physically and geochemically complex and likely only a fraction reaches the atmosphere (Huybers & Langmuir, 2009).»

Same process, except this time probably as a result of methane released from the sea floor as a result of continental drift.

Now come fears of a methane time bomb, part two, this one bursting from the sea floor of the shallow Arctic continental shelf.

In a core of sediments taken from the sea floor that was once covered by the Larsen A Ice Shelf, researchers led by Dr. Eugene W. Domack, a professor of geology at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., found the tiny fossils of marine algae.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

There may impressive mountains on Gough, but island rose from sea floor about 3500 meters: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/geolsci/dlr/pdf/maund%20rex%20leroex%20reid%201988.pdf So it's in location I like, and it certainly possible as already happened - and fairly recently:) But one could probably find examples.

Pumping all that fresh cold water down to the temperature / density boundary layer that offsets the geothermal energy from the sea floor, sequesters CO2 in a pH neutral layer and matches the pitifully slow rate of thermal diffusion from the lower thermokline.

>... there are still ways of discovering the temperatures of past centuries,... tree rings... Core samples from drilling in ice fields... historical reconstruction... coral growth, isotope data from sea floor sediment, and insects, all of which point to a very warm climate in medieval times.

In the past few days, the researchers have seen areas of sea foaming with gas bubbling up through «methane chimneys» rising from the sea floor.

The scariest parts of the Siberian margin are the shallow parts, because this is where methane bubbles from the sea floor might reach the surface, and this is where the warming trend is observed most strongly.

Instead of taking a leaf out of Aqua Kitty UDX's book and being another side - scrolling arcade game that has you play as a cat, defending miners that are attempting to mine milk from the sea floor, Spacecats with Lasers is a game that most certainly lives up to its name.

Milln Reef - The 3 Sisters The three sisters are three large coral formations that form large pillars rising from the sea floor.

Roca Redonda, Isabela Island — Off the north coast of Isabela, this dive site is the tip of an underwater volcano that rises from the sea floor and emerges as an island.

Just like a terrestrial forest, the kelp is a teeming three - dimensional realm, extending from the sea floor to the surface, and to dive the kelp is to soar weightlessly through that undersea forest.

As I looked back up at the surface of the water from the sea floor, I could tell that we'd descended much deeper than I had ever done and was excited to start exploring the reef at these depths.

Diving in Raja Ampat is breathtaking, with the marine life thriving from the sea floor to the surface and the colourful reef teeming with activity.

The gray whale is unique in the use of its baleen feeding technique as contrasted to other baleen whales.According to the National Marine Mammal Laboratory, «Gray whales are bottom feeders, and suck sediment and the «benthic» amphipods that are their prey from the sea floor.

A blue hole is formed when part of the roof of a cave collapses and a passage from the sea floor to the cave is formed.

Kelp is a type of large seaweed that are famous for growing from the sea floor to the surface, seeking sunlight and can grow at amazingly fast rates, sometimes more than half a meter a day!

The microbe was isolated from the sea floor at the base of a «black smoker» chimney in the Gulf of California.

Mauna Kea, at 13,803 feet (4,207 meters) above sea level, is in a sense the tallest mountain in the world because it rises 30,000 feet (9,144 m) from the sea floor.

There, they collected mud from the sea floor, which builds up for millions of years like a giant layer cake as newer sediments pile on top of older ones.

Many others, he notes, suggest that samples are too easily contaminated during drilling by microbes that live in overlying sediments, or by inadequate precautions while handling the samples once they've been retrieved from the sea floor.

The findings support the idea that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) lurked in hydrothermal vents where hot water rich in hydrogen, carbon dioxide and minerals emerged from the sea floor.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

Although plant - eaters, the rabbitfish accidentally scoop up marine animals from the sea floor while feeding.

Additional sensors in the pipe running from the sea floor to the drilling platform were designed to activate the rams if pipe and platform ever separated.

When the animals got hungry, they ripped a marine basket sponge from the sea floor and fitted it over their beaks like a person would fit a glove over a hand.

Sea otters live offshore in forests of kelp — huge, yellow - brown, rubbery seaweed reaching from the sea floor to the surface, like tall trees.

The largest is 1.5 kilometres across the rim and rises 700 metres from the sea floor.

The largest is 1.5 kilometres across the rim and it rises 700 metres from the sea floor.

Scientists think sudden, violent outflows of the gas from the sea floor might have spiked the planet's temperature about 55 million years ago, and they think the gulf spill affords them the unique opportunity to study an analog in real time.

The team collected aquatic organisms from the sea floor and placed them in cages underwater.

In 1998, a bot known as ROPOS («Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science») sawed a black smoker free from the sea floor and hauled it up to allow scientists to examine its structure and unique organisms.

That is one of the things that scientists had to figure out while listening for the sound of methane release from the sea floor.

After it has ground down the volcanic chimneys that rise from the sea floor, other mining robots follow in its tracks.

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years ago, beginning the worst oil spill in U.S. history, those in charge of the recovery discovered a new wrinkle: the millions of gallons of oil bubbling from the sea floor weren't all collecting on the surface where it could be skimmed or burned.