Sentences with phrase «into sea floor»

Most of the Earth's heat storage is within its seas with smaller fractions of the heat transfer in processes such as evaporation, radiation, diffusion, or absorption into the sea floor.

IT MIGHT look like a weird road map, but the picture above shows scars gouged into the sea floor by the undersides of icebergs.

The growth of hard coatings and shells would afford additional UV protection, as would the capacity to burrow deeper into the sea floor.

Burrowing also became more common and varied, which broke down the once - widespread bacterial mats, allowing oxygen into the sea floor to form a newly hospitable space for living.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

Confirmation arrived in February this year, when an international team extracted 34 sediment cores from three sites on the seabed, revealing a fossilised coral reef that reaches 110 metres into the sea floor.

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It is with Chef Bennett's passion for clean eating that The Sea Grill moves forward into the New Year appealing to those who look forward to a night out, enjoying the splendors of front - row, floor - to - ceiling views of The Rink at Rockefeller Center.

The materials will be dropped to the sea floor, where fish and barnacles and sponges and other marine life will move into their new homes.

IMAGINE drilling into a cylinder just 18 centimetres wide and 5500 metres below the sea floor.

Three basic forces are believed to drive oceanic plate movement: plates are «pushed» away from mid-ocean ridges as new sea floor forms; plates are «pulled» as the oldest parts of the plate dive back into the earth at subduction zones; and convection within the asthenosphere helps ferry the plates along.

Then, they nestled the boxes into parts of the sea floor near the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica, where they warmed a thin layer of water to 1 °C or 2 °C above the ambient temperature.

Burrowing into the impact structure responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs, a team of researchers has achieved one of its main goals, with rocks brought up from 670 meters beneath the sea floor off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.

One incident that is emblematic of the problems occurred on 8 March, a month before the accident, when BP discovered that drilling fluid had leaked into rocks 5000 metres below the sea floor instead of returning to the surface via a pipe.

It is designed to deploy smaller robots carried inside that would be released into the water to map the sea floor and check for signs of life.

A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life's thermal limit within reach.

Using sediment cores, long cylinders drilled into the marsh floor that offer scientists a look back through time, they were able to reconstruct sea - level changes since 1788.

But with climate change, the WAP is experiencing rapid regional warming, with fewer days each year of fast ice — letting the icebergs into the shallows more often, where they carve huge gashes through the habitat of the colorful, tentacled invertebrate animals carpeting the sea floor.

Dr. Hoffmann: «The isotope Hafnium 176 in contrast to its counterpart Neodymium 143 was transported by means of weathering into the oceans and became part of iron - rich sediments on the sea floor 2,700 million years ago.»

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

This research evolved into the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the gloSea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the glosea - floor sediment around the globe.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

Most Antarctic glaciers flow straight into the ocean in deep submarine troughs, the grounding line is the place where their base leaves the sea floor and begins to float.

One more unusual behavior may be explained by the hagfish lifestyle: The slime «eels» live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food.

It started when the corpses of microbes and algae fell to the sea floor and got sucked into Earth's mantle by diving tectonic plates.

With help from the ocean's natural wave action, the reduction in surface tension allows large surface slicks to separate into individual droplets that eventually sink to the sea floor.

To elude predators, the worms dig small burrows into the muddy sea floor or coral.

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.

The team added other data such as the shape of the sea floor and used statistical techniques to group the results into categories.

These have provided insight into the roles that marine bacteria, archaea, viruses and eukaryotic microbes have as global primary producers that provide nutrition at the base of the food chain; remineralization (the transformation of organic molecules into inorganic forms); and the deposition of carbon on the sea floor.

As these deposits piled up on the sea floor, rapid chemical changes released massive amounts of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus into the ocean.

They are hoping the seismic data they collect between now and mid-September will support the claim of Denmark and Greenland to 150,000 square kilometres of extra territory extending north from Greenland into the oil and gas - rich Arctic sea floor.

A crane lifts Doc Ricketts off the floor, the floor opens up to reveal the surface of the sea, and the machine is gently lowered into the water.

Eruptions of lava on the sea floor as it widens appear to form deep cracks into which seawater rushes.

Ocean currents that may carry large amounts of heat are not calculated into the GCM, and thus we do not have a good estimate of the rate of energy transfer at the boundaries of specific sea - floor methane systems.

Huge volcano - triggered landslides can alter the seabed when they tumble into the ocean and sweep across the sea floor.

A playground for the imagination flinging people into crowds, barreling through penthouses sending the top floor partygoers plummeting into traffic and getting the gas tank launch just right with a car in tow for an exquisite display of «what the f ***» sailing through the air across the map through a roller coaster and into the sea.

When the earth shifted, exposing the sea floor until it eventually became cliffs, the weathering processes of wind and water cut into the relatively softer stone more easily, gouging out deep spaces and leaving ledges of the harder stone between.

The great room, with floor to ceiling glass doors, flows from the seating space into the charming French style kitchen which faces sea.

We arrived at the Salt & Sill — Sweden's first floating hotel — and checked into our quaint sea - view room on the bottom floor of the hotel.

With the help of Egyptian architect, Hassan Fathy, they transformed it into an impressive, sprawling Hispano - Moorish building with appealing white domes, tiled floors and doors and a courtyard with several styles of gardens with lush mountains as the backdrop and views of the sea beyond.

Once there, check into $ 1,000 - a-night starter suites to enjoy the sky - high spa (with infinity pool seemingly floating into the sea) and a team of butlers on each floor of this 1,000 - foot - high ultra-haute hotel.

You'll be immediately drawn to the villa's incredible top - floor living area, surrounded by a saltwater infinity pool that looks as though it's spilling into the turquoise sea.

An interior stairway leads residents to the top floor and into an open living room with sliding glass doors and a front verandah facing the open sea.

BEDROOM ONE: - Master bedroom with king - bed - Polished concrete floors and white walls - Ensuite bathroom split into three areas featuring, multi-faceted shower, bathtub, rain shower and garden - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM TWO: - King - sized four - poster bed with trundle incorporated — perfect for kids or a young family - Ensuite with outdoor shower and private terrace - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM THREE: - King - sized floating bed - Sliding door leading to ensuite featuring funky design and outdoor shower - Private terrace with garden views - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM FOUR: - Located in the guest pavilion along with bedroom five, this guest room features polished floors, walls and ceilings - King - sized bed - Glass doors opening onto a wooden deck beside a private swimming pool - Ensuite with tub facing the sea and an outdoor shower - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan BEDROOM FIVE: - Also located in the guest pavilion - King - sized bed - Huge walk - in robes and sitting area - Glass doors opening onto a wooden deck beside a private swimming pool - Ensuite with tub facing the sea, alfresco poolside rain shower and single washbasin - Air - conditioning and ceiling fan

The white sandy sea floor reflects light through the crystal clear waters, transforming the rich abundance of brightly colored marine flora and fauna into an underwater wonderland.

Just beyond these colorful coral gardens, the sea floor drops steeply into a trench known as the Tongue of the Ocean, which plunges to depths of more than 6,000 feet and is home to marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, and other large fish species.

For example, sea urchins drill their way into the rock, and over successive generations may remove considerable bedrock from the floors and lower walls.

Step into your private villa or residence to find indulgent furnishings, modern decor, floor - to - ceiling windows, and best of all — a grandiose patio overlooking the Sea of Cortez.

Dropping sharply into a trench known as the Tongue of the Ocean, the sea floor plunges to depths of more than 6,000 feet and is home to marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, marlin, and other large fish species.

The sands of the island, the beaches, material on the sea floor between the island and the reef, the makeup of the reef itself and the material shed from the reef into the deeper ocean offshore are composed dominantly of calcium carbonate with some magnesium carbonate.