Sentences with phrase «in the sea floor»

«But if you look at methane in the sea floor, it's the lightest carbon source [isotopically] on the planet.»

Experiments transplanting certain worms around a volcanic carbon dioxide vent in the sea floor near Naples show remarkable adaptability in these organisms, both through shifts in metabolism and genetics.

Then the team's computer simulations showed that eddies could trigger changes in sea floor currents matching the patterns measured by the instruments, with the best correlation occurring when the effects on deep - sea currents happened 8 days after the eddy passed overhead.

These smaller icebergs had a v - shaped structure like the keel of a ship, and left long and deep single scars in the sea floor.

The timing is coincident with a period of global warming, and Williscroft and colleagues suggest that it was this warming that released methane frozen as methane hydrates in the sea floor, as a relatively sudden methane «burp.»

Pushed by the natural motion of wind and ocean currents — often over long distances — the litter is present in oceans worldwide, as well as in sea floor sediment and coastal sands.

Baines thinks his work could be used to estimate how much ash is pouring out of a volcano, or how fast oil is gushing from a hole in the sea floor.

Though it sounds like a swank new aftershave or maybe a rap star, «methane ice» refers to the vast deposits of frozen methane buried in the sea floor.

After analyzing the water temperatures and the locations of the eggs, the researchers realized that these littered in hot water around known locations of hydrothermal vents, an opening in the sea floor out of which geothermally heated water flows.

The easiest way to describe it is as if someone took a large ice cream scoop made a large circle in the sea floor and voila - the dive site was created.

Changes in sea floor spreading rates effect the volume of the mid-oceanic ridges which may contribute to changes in the volume of the ocean basins.

That greatly ignores the fact that more then 9o % of clathrate is lied down in lumps in the sea floor.

Slightly warmer ocean water may also release frozen natural gases in the sea floor, all of which act as greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, says Rind.

Your task is to study the abundance of animals that live near hot, sulphurous vents in the sea floor, and to find the reasons for their high levels of productivity.

A similar story applies to giant methane belches changing the climate — as knowledge of the huge stores of frozen and free methane in the sea floor was first developed, and the carbon frozen in Arctic soils, we couldn't quantify the possibility of a large, rapid release.

In doing so, they often leave long trails of mud behind them, and «feeding pits» in the sea floor.