Sentences with phrase «near the ocean floor»

«This provided a slow trickle of food for organisms living near the ocean floor which enabled them to survive the mass extinction, answering one of the outstanding questions that still remained regarding this period of history.

The evidence for this behavior was captured by wildlife film maker John Downer, who, in his documentary Dolphins: Spies in the Pod, witnessed a group of young dolphins snag a puffer fish from near the ocean floor and begin to pass it around.

They also like to hang out near the ocean floor and in caves.

Here in Oregon we are the somewhat unwitting hosts of a great deal of methane hydrate research by Oregon State University, some Texas university people (and backing by the good old Houston - based gas industry), of deposits on and near the ocean floor on the Gorda Ridge just off our coast, which is a consequence of the subduction zone geomorphology of the area.

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It is near the ocean that the giant cat fish causes tsunamis by beating his tail on the ocean floor.

He also said that their feeding pattern is distinct because the area where they've settled has a limited supply of food available on the ocean floor, and an abundance near the surface.

SHAKY GROUND Researchers drag sensors across the ocean near New Zealand to study ocean floor vibrations, adding data to the debate about how the Earth moves deep underground.

To take a closer look at these processes, a team led by scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory installed an array of seismometers on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, near the center of the Pacific Plate.

That began to change last year with the discovery of DNA sequences for an organism that no one has ever actually seen living near a deep - sea vent on the ocean floor.

This means nutrients are near the surface for a shorter time before returning to the deep ocean floor.

This alien - like creature is actually an ocean worm (Nereis sandersi) that lives near ocean - floor hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic.

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

«These rocks were deposited on the ocean floor 440 million years ago near the south pole, and its components were oriented in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field at the time (N - S),» explains Javier Fernández Lozano, a geologist at the University of Salamanca and co-author of the research.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

Many of the deepest branches in Woese's tree, those that join nearest to the three - way junction of the kingdoms, turned out to belong to organisms that live at high temperatures, as in the fuming springs in Yellowstone Park or the volcanic vents that gash the ocean floor.

Over a year ago, scientists uncovered a microbe that lives in hot - water geysers on the ocean floor near Iceland.

Some thrive near cracks in the ocean floor — called hydrothermal vents — that spew scalding water.

Named after Dudley Foster, pilot of the US Navy submersible Alvin, who collected the first specimen, this tiny jelly is common near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an ocean - floor dividing line that separates the North American tectonic plate from the Eurasian, running south from Iceland down to the Azores.

Hydrothermal vents are located several miles below the surface, on the ocean floor, where the surrounding water is at or near freezing, it is absolutely dark and the pressure is high.

The audio isn't aggressive for aggressive's sake, though, and ambient surround usage is reduced to almost nothing during scenes when the sub is stuck near the bottom of the ocean floor, an artistic decision that emphasizes a sense of profound isolation.

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Near the Glass Palace are four 2D warp pipes on the ocean floor.

Some places that are not near water may become tropical beach front property while places near water may become a part of the ocean floor.

The broader implications of this study suggest that carbon budgets of the deep ocean in the past and thus climate relationships may have been much stronger affected by these processes near the sea floor than previously thought.

The analogy to the Number 12 is incomplete because oceanographers imagine a third mode of global climate, seen only in the aftermath of Heinrich events, where the Hudson's Bay ice mountain collapses and iceberg armadas sail from Canada across to France, dropping rocks off their bottoms all the way (which is how they were detected, as layers in ocean - floor cores that get thicker and thicker as you get nearer Hudson Strait).

Jeffrey Marlow, from the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues have found that the towering rocks lying at the ocean floor and near methane seeps, are the dwellings of methane - munching microbes.

Greater understanding of the ocean floor and the discoveries of features like mid-oceanic ridges, geomagnetic anomalies parallel to the mid-oceanic ridges, and the association of island arcs and oceanic trenches occurring together and near the continental margins, suggested convection might indeed be at work.

However, the hydrate stability zone thickness decreases to zero near the top of its depth range in the ocean, and an increase in water column temperature there could eliminate the stability zone entirely, potentially providing an easier pathway for methane to reach the sea floor.

As mentioned above, you might want to consider adding on extra coverage options or upping the limits if you have expensive belongings or particular valuables hidden around the house or if you live near the ocean in National City or on the ground floor.