Sentences with phrase «from seabed»

Local developer Nakheel (the sponsor for this four - day press trip) is constructing 300 islands known collectively as «The World,» using sand reclaimed from the seabed and shaped to resemble the global map.

Total says that, contrary to some concerns, that the gas is not coming to the surface from the seabed itself, but rather from the deck level of the rig.

Westbrook, G., et al, Escape of methane gas from the seabed along the West Spitsbergen continental margin, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL.

Shakhova has 8 Tg / yr from the seabed.

Studies from 55 million years ago show possibility of eruption of methane from the seabed with enormous self - sustained warming.

Methane from the seabed and permafrost has already been noted to be occurring.

Evidence is mixed, and depends on what acids flow into the ocean near shore and from the seabed.

Widespread seafloor gas release from the seabed offshore the West Yamal Peninsula, suggests that permafrost has degraded more significantly than previously thought.

Polar sea ice depends on the entire oceanic - atmospheric polar «weather» system — from seabed to upper stratosphere — which sober scientists have long realized is an extremely complex one and is still very poorly understood.

Studies of clay extracted from the seabed, supported by new theoretical ideas, suggested that ocean current patterns might shift within mere thousands of years.

The scientists failed to notice that most cores drilled from the seabed could not in fact record a abrupt change.

In 1956 the carbon - 14 expert Hans Suess, studying the shells of plankton embedded in cores of clay pulled from the seabed by Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory, discovered a change at the fastest speed that anyone expected.

A National Academy of Sciences report attributes a primary cause of those thunderous West Antarctic Ice Sheet iceberg collapses we often see featured in the media to geothermal heat from seabed volcanoes below.

Far more of the greenhouse gas methane is seeping from seabed deposits in the Arctic shelf into the atmosphere than previously thought.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

Within the Arctic Sanctuary, there would be no fishing, no military activity and no exploration for or extraction of fossil fuels or other minerals from the seabed.

«Previous observations have pointed to large methane plumes being released from the seabed in the relatively shallow sea off the northern coast of Siberia, but the latest findings were made far away from land in the deep, open ocean where the surface is usually capped by ice.»

Measurements from the seabed, the air and from land stations, along with modelling analysis, will provide the link between potential sources of elevated methane concentrations and the reason for variations.

By the way, Gavin Schmidt is a mathematician, Michael Mann claimed he was a Nobel Laureate, James Hansen claims that super storms will suck giant boulders from the seabed and drop them on our heads, and Kevin Tremberth is convinced that the sun illuminates all continents at the same time — night doesn't exist!

But in those areas that are active, there are gas flares 800 meters tall rising from the seabed - that's the size of the tallest manmade structure in the world, Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

-- Increasing release of carbon stored in soils and permafrost and methane from seabed methane hydrates

Several questions were asked about the integrity of the well bore, the drilled and lined hole descending several miles from the seabed to the oil and gas deposits far below.

Apparently, Arctic storms increase methane release from the seabed.

Dec. 29, 9:28 a.m. Updated below I've been in touch with Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov, the intrepid Russian researchers, based at the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, who for more than a decade have been leading an important international project analyzing methane plumes rising from the seabed in the shallow Arctic waters spreading north from eastern Siberian shores.

Fresh headlines followed publication of «Ebullition and storm - induced methane release from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf,» a new Nature Geoscience paper from Natalia Shakhova, Igor Semiletov and the rest of a team tracking emissions of this important greenhouse gas from the seabed and shallow waters off Siberia.

One could well be the way it chose the basic design of the well — not just the infamous failed blowout preventer on the top, but the entire system from the seabed to the oil source deep below.

«This expedition was organized on a short notice by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research and the U.S. National Science Foundation following the discovery of a dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas from the seabed in the eastern part of the Arctic», said Professor Igor Semiletov, the head of the expedition.

While the risk to coasts is likely to quickly recede, biologists have expressed strong concerns about the use of nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants that don't destroy surface slicks, but simply cause the oil to disperse and sink (not to mention the dispersants sprayed at the point where oil gushed from the seabed a mile down).

11:50 p.m. Updated Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts has convinced BP to start streaming live video from the seabed oil gusher, he announced on his House Web site tonight.

Some of the ideas for cutting the oil flow — including adding hoses directly to the failed blowout protector rising from the seabed to capture escaping oil — echo work that BP and its Deepwater Horizon team were already considering or have since initiated.

Updated, 12:47 p.m. On another Arctic front, the notion that a huge outburst of heat - trapping methane is nigh from the seabed off Siberia, here's an update:

Now there's an oil opera, «As the Oil Flows,» brought to you by BP via a «spillcam» after lawmakers pressed the company to send its nonstop video feeds from the seabed gusher to the public.

The capping of the well has been conducted cautiously, with days of tests, just in case the walls of the well, which extends some three miles from the seabed down to the oil and gas reservoir, were damaged.

July 19, 9:50 a.m. Updated Lest residents around the Gulf of Mexico rest too easy after the tenth effort by BP to seal its gushing seabed well seemed to work, the federal government Sunday night ordered the company to be prepared to open the valves on its well cap if reports of oil and gas seeping from the seabed nearby were confirmed.

Dr. Pollard and Dr. DeConto ran a five - million - year computer simulation of the ice sheet's comings and goings, using data on past actual climate and ocean conditions gleaned from seabed samples (the subject of the other paper) to validate the resulting patterns.

It is also becoming ever clearer that the world has vast untapped stores of natural gas, everywhere from the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico to a wide swath of the Arctic.

Studies from 55 million years ago (PETM excursion) show a possiblity that the eruption of methane from the seabed could intensify enormous self - sustained warming.

Some people have even shown evidence that most of the CH4 is riverine in origin, not from the seabed at all (Bussmann, 2013).

The site is made up of 4 large coral heads that are perched upon a plateau that rises from the seabed at 40 metres to 10 metres or so.

Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising 600m (2,000 feet) from seabed.

I tied the structures on land, dived underwater, collected broken corals from the seabed and transplanted them to the structure underwater, fighting against sea currents and running low on air very quickly.

It is harvested from the seabed's off Ireland's southwest coast, which are some of the purest and cleanest waters across the globe.

There were frustrated reports about the Mexican government vastly underestimating the volume of oil gushing from the seabed, much like the lowball guesses from BP in April.

Studies from 55 million years ago show possibility of eruption of methane from the seabed with enormous self - sustained warming.

Our fieldwork has recorded the changes in zoobenthos by collecting samples from the seabed and taking underwater photos.

At these locations volcanic carbon dioxide escapes from the seabed, lowering the water's acidity to a level, which scientists predict for the future of the oceans.

A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.

Methane gas released from the seabed during the summer months leads to an increased methane concentration in the ocean.

Measurements from the seabed, the air and from land stations, along with modelling analysis, will provide the link between potential sources of elevated methane concentrations and the reason for variations.

A new study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.