Sentences with phrase «lie under the ocean»

By analyzing the composition of sand from the island of Mauritius (shown here), researchers learned that a microcontinent may lie under the ocean.

«There's no need to invent the horrors that lie under the ocean.

Not exact matches

Atolls and other low - lying islands in the Pacific Ocean may not slip under the waves but they will likely become uninhabitable due to overwashing waves

An exterior crust contains the oceans and continents, while under the crust lies a thick mantle of hot but solid rock 2,900 kilometers thick.

No one disputes that a lot of oil lies untapped under the rocky floors of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans off the U.S. coasts, in areas where Congress has banned drilling since 1982.

The Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation has bankrolled much of the research into depressurizing these deposits, many of which lie a mile under the ocean surface.

Last year, a study of its gravitational field hinted at a 10 - kilometer - thick regional ocean around the south pole lying under an ice crust some 30 to 40 kilometers deep.

It could take decades or centuries, but change will be locked in by a 3C temperature rise, which would extensively melt ice caps, shrink glaciers and thermally expand the oceans so many current coastlines and low - lying plains would be under sea level.