See Page 4 - 22, Figure 9: Geomagnetic field intensity level derived from composite volcanic records,
not sea floor sediments, for the past 45 kyr.
Not exact matches
Not only does it trap and hold
sediment moving across the
sea floor, but it provides cover and a habitat for myriads of marine life.
[Response:
Sea ice is still not at levels seen during the Early Holocene, and since we are discussing sea floor sediments the main reason given to be concerned is that the change of summer sea ice will warm the bottom sea water, we are clearly not there y
Sea ice is still
not at levels seen during the Early Holocene, and since we are discussing
sea floor sediments the main reason given to be concerned is that the change of summer sea ice will warm the bottom sea water, we are clearly not there y
sea floor sediments the main reason given to be concerned is that the change of summer
sea ice will warm the bottom sea water, we are clearly not there y
sea ice will warm the bottom
sea water, we are clearly not there y
sea water, we are clearly
not there yet.
I should have said that the paleoclimatologists who study
sea floor sediments are pretty confident that the high lattitude arctic ocean has
not been ice free for many hundreds of thousands of years.
They live only in a few borderline places, however; for global temperatures scientists use
not only other species of trees but a wide variety of «proxies» from ice cores, coral reefs, cave deposits, the
sea floor, pollen in lake
sediments, boreholes in rock and so forth.
However, most of the methane produced from dissociating marine hydrates will be consumed by anaerobic processes in the top few metres of sulphate - rich near -
sea -
floor sediments and all of the rest will be dissolved and oxidized in
sea water and will
not be released to the atmosphere as methane, although the dissolved CO2 will equilibrate with atmosphere after a few centuries.