Sentences with phrase «muddy ocean bottom»
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.
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This thin sliver of ocean reaching under the ice turned out to be 10 meters deep, and the camera came to rest on the bottom beneath it, revealing it to be muddy and strewn with pebbles — a flat, barren tract, devoid of any obvious signs of large marine life such as brittle stars, sponges or worms.
The grounding zone — where the ice lifts off the muddy bottom of what would be the Antarctic shoreline if there were no ice, and begins to float on the ocean — serves as a brake, controlling the speed of the glaciers feeding into it.