Sentences with phrase «in ocean bottom»

The only other explanation for continuing sea level rise is a rise in the ocean bottom on these time scales.

The Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) is unique in its ability to measure changes in ocean bottom pressure (OBP) over the entire globe at large scales.

There are some fascinating proposals there, even some that are looking for that «missing heat» in the ocean bottom.

Thus, iron - fertilized diatom blooms may sequester carbon for timescales of centuries in ocean bottom water and for longer in the sediments.

The ones I find fascinating are the ones looking for the «lost heat» in the ocean bottom.

Which lead me to this: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/18/156976147/can-adding-iron-to-oceans-slow-global-warming then to this study: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7407/full/nature11229.html Money shot (last line in abstract):» Thus, iron - fertilized diatom blooms may sequester carbon for timescales of centuries in ocean bottom water and for longer in the sediments.

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.

These observations of spatial variation in relation to the terrain features are likely driven in part by changes in ocean bottom current speeds produced by the hilly terrain; this causes changes in the settling and drifting of marine snow.

Not exact matches

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.

The heavy concrete is supposed to make a body sink to the bottom of a river or the ocean, but — for reasons that remain unclear — it might not have worked in this case.

If it is successful in driving Chevron out of the country, Brazil's dreams to be the preeminent oil exporter in the western hemisphere would sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Carried within the water column, accumulating on the ocean bottom or becoming entrained in marine sediments — a spill of Alberta bitumen might prove impossible to contain.

All the intelligence in your brain is like one grain of sand on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean compared to God's knowledge.

Examples include the claim that air has weight, 26 the existence of valleys27 and vents28 on the bottom of the sea, ocean currents, 29 and the fact that winds blow in circular paths.30 These are remarkable claims that could not have been directly observed by a bunch on nomadic sheep herders.

Bacteria thrive virtually everywhere on Earth — from sub-zero temperatures to over 750 degrees F (in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean), and in widely varying oxygen, pressure and nutrient conditions.

And it is a child's country, which is described by the water's soft, ambiguous edge, and it is bewildering to stand sentry there, unsuccessfully disguised as a heron, with your large white feet sticking out, to listen to (and wistfully try to recall) the wild laughter, the shrieks, the singular tuneless tunes children drone as they march in intent circles; and to watch them groping into their shadows for shells on the roily bottom or building improbable fortifications to keep the ocean where it belongs («What arc - you doing?»

At some point something happens in Arsene's head and we just spring back from the bottom of the ocean to sea level.

Things weren't necessarily going the way that I thought they should go... and we certainly weren't in a place much above scraping the bottom... but somehow, in that moment, I found a little bit of hope and, like a life raft in the middle of a stormy ocean, I clung to that little piece of hope because it was all it seemed like I had to hold onto.

After those first two hours those pheromones start to fade, they start to wane and babies start getting tired, I mean think about when you go out swimming in the ocean and you are being hit by wave after wave after wave and there is no bottom that you can rest at and that's what birth is like to a baby and so they come out and are like, «oh my god, I'm so tired» and they are exhausted and finally when they go to sleep and those hormonal instincts starts to wear down then when you try to put them to the breast they are like, «well hello!»

Last month, the marine animal showcase by the lake introduced Stingray Touch, a place for warm - weather visitors to pet de-barbed, ocean - going bottom - feeders in an outdoor pool.

Then you found still more perplexing discoveries in other South African mines — for instance, microbes similar to those previously seen only at the bottom of the ocean.

The race is on to tap the world's biggest and most unusual fossil fuel supply — methane trapped in frozen hydrates in permafrost and at the bottom of the ocean

Optical sensors installed on ships, for instance, can determine ocean water color that reflects the activity of micro-algae at the bottom of the food chain and, when examined alongside satellite color observations, can support extrapolations about what's happening in a given area of ocean.

When they died, their shells sank to the bottom of the ocean, making the layers Meckler saw in the core.

Gas hydrates, icelike deposits of methane locked away in permafrost and buried at the ocean bottom, may pose a threat to our climate (see Discover, March 2004).

If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.

The ocean bottom is one of the world's most important yet enigmatic ecosystems, covered in a thick sludge rich with bacteria that consume and recycle dead algae and animal feces.

Staking out a different kind of property claim, a Russian submarine planted that nation's flag at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, at the terrestrial North Pole, in 2007.

And Webb could still end up blown to smithereens or at the bottom of the ocean due to a launch failure, or drifting uselessly in space due to snags in its carefully choreographed deployment sequence.

The bottom map shows aerosol emissions from ships crossing routes in the Indian Ocean and South China sea from 2010.

«These new ocean bottom data, which are really coming out of technological advances in the instrumentation community, will give us new abilities to see through the ocean floor,» Eilon said.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, so scientists are interested in how it might be released from the ocean bottom.

The Gudgeon crew prowled Dia's bays, where the ocean bottom is smooth and artefacts are more likely to show up in sonar images.

«It's hard to discern an ice sheet's cycles on land because it destroys the evidence,» she says, «but it dumps that evidence in the oceans, archived in layers on the bottom.»

The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.

When the pH of the ocean dips as a result of absorbing this excess gas, bottom sediments rich in calcium carbonate begin to dissolve, countering the increase in acidity.

If the ice at the bottom of a glacier melts, the point where it connects to the bedrock moves backward, farther inland, losing ice to the ocean in the process.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

But scientists increasingly attribute much of the observed grounding line retreat — particularly in West Antarctica — to the influence of warmer ocean water seeping beneath the ice shelves and lapping against the bases of glaciers, melting the ice from the bottom up.

At various points in Earth's history, dust fell into the ocean and fed algae, which gobbled up carbon dioxide and sank to the bottom of the sea, taking greenhouse gas with them and cooling the world.

These algae then creep in, extending their tendrils over close to 60 % of the ocean bottom, Hay estimates, and turning waters a sludgy green.

The old houses, often more than a meter across, sink toward the ocean bottom carrying with them plankton and other biological tidbits snagged in their goo.

Methane, the carbon - hydrogen compound that is the main component of natural gas and cow flatulence, gets trapped inside crystalline cages of frozen water in the muddy ocean bottom.

«The chevrons in Madagascar associated with the crater were filled with melted microfossils from the bottom of the ocean.

«But there are bacteria in chemical pits at the bottom of the ocean, so why not in the fallopian tubes?

In recent years, say scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these baleen whales that typically sift out little crustaceans from the bottom are now eating mysid shrimp and even krill in ocean waterIn recent years, say scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these baleen whales that typically sift out little crustaceans from the bottom are now eating mysid shrimp and even krill in ocean waterin ocean waters.

In 1960, Auguste's son Jacques Piccard steered a pressurized steel sphere called a bathyscaphe to the deepest point in the world's oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana TrencIn 1960, Auguste's son Jacques Piccard steered a pressurized steel sphere called a bathyscaphe to the deepest point in the world's oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana Trencin the world's oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Some of this carbon then sinks to the bottom of the ocean when the phytoplankton die, locking it away in the deep sea for thousands of years.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.