Sentences with phrase «ocean floor»

They are found all over the world, including on ocean floors and in our solar system.

You get about 20 minutes of ocean floor time (and a free under water photo for the holiday album).

«Four - legged» fish goes for a walk along ocean floor in stunning photos taken on deep sea dive.

Deep ocean currents are caused by cold water near the poles sinking and flowing along ocean floor.

Some 2000 metres of ice loaded what now is ocean floor with heavy weight.

On the deep ocean floor, for instance, more than 80 percent of the species being found are unknown.

It rises 235 feet above the sandy ocean floor and dominates the landscape.

2 night trips focus on surface cage diving, 3 or 4 night trips include ocean floor cage dives.

Thus and so, there is evidence that the warming ocean floor is already beginning to release massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere, with dire consequences to follow.

If you're a qualified scuba diver, you'll have the chance to experience the world's only ocean floor cage.

When sea level drops during ice ages, they found, the decreased pressure on the mantle through the thin ocean floor would increase the rate of mantle melting.

However, this is balanced by the carbon sink provided by newly formed ocean floor lava.

Now, a new report says that if we keep cooking the planet, there will be mass starvation on ocean floors and a decrease in the human food supply as well.

Scientists think that the mantle is like marble cake, mixed up by swirling together bits of ocean floor and primordial rock.

Only about 5 per cent of the deep ocean floor has been mapped to this level of detail.

Its shallow, sandy ocean floor and large surf break makes it a favorite for all levels of surfers, from beginners to pros.

The sea at Saline beach is like a private saltwater swimming pool - so clear you can see the white sand ocean floor at a depth of 10ft.

Instead of abrupt release of methane which is evident in other parts of the Arctic, the hydrate melt in ocean floor off Western Svalbard caused slow and steady seeps that are ongoing.

Van Dover has studied the deep ocean floor for years and made many dives in Alvin.

On a gradually descending ocean floor like the one found in Playa Grande near Montezuma, Costa Rica, you can walk out up to 100 meters and easily catch any white wave that comes your way.

Some preschoolers scurry across ocean floors carrying toy versions of cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

This not so «secret» surf spot located on the Bukit Peninsula is aptly named Green Bowl due to its bowl shaped ocean floor which is visible during low tide.

On 13 September, the research vessel Chikyu will set sail from Shimizu, Japan, and sink its bits into a patch of ocean floor where the sediments should reach 130 °C at the maximum drill depth of 1260 meters.

The dome area is situated on the Arctic Ocean floor just north of the craters.

(Base map reprinted by permission from World Ocean Floor by Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp, Copyright 1977.)

«In a subsea trench along the coast, the Pacific Ocean floor submerges beneath the continent building up tension that is released in earthquakes,» explains Professor Onno Oncken of the GFZ.

China objects to Vietnam's claim over ocean floor in the South China Sea, as it includes islands disputed by the two sides.

I think some sort of ocean floor topography coudl do this, but this would take a long time to get the ocean circulation into equilibrium, so I haven't experimented with it yet.

Therefore, we don't need water high enough to cover Mount Everest, we just need some geological plate shifting so that mountains rise up and ocean floors drop.

Regarding clathrate methane, I know they're trying some pilot scale production from ocean floor methane hydrate, but it's hardly a mature technology.

The new map will feature the most easterly point of Australia, Cape Byron, as the centerpiece, with the surrounding ocean floor revealed.

Most recently, she was an Artist at Sea aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus where she collaborated with scientists mapping out never - before - seen ocean floor topography from the Galápagos Islands to California, and on the Research Vessel Falkor where she created art alongside scientists exploring uncharted territory from Vietnam to Guam.

Peacock and his team built a carbon - fiber resin scale model of the Luzon Strait, including the islands and surrounding ocean floor topography.

Standing 40 meters from the ground below on the longest canopy bridge in the world, I look across the lowland landscape of jungle kicking about in the wind like a vast ocean floor of green anemones.

For us to have better maps of the moon, Mars, and Jupiter than our own ocean floor is baffling.

This is a beast that should only house intermediate to advanced surfers, because the smaller the surf, the closer it will break to shore where a myriad of rocks are scattered across shallow ocean floor.

Scientists long believed the deposits were formed when areas of muddy ocean floor slid into a lower place creating an anoxic (oxygen - starved) environment that was particularly favorable to fossilization because decay was inhibited.

Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth's crust for the first time.

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.

For instance, a paper by New Mexico Tech researchers Emily Morton and Susan Bilek describes 96 small new earthquakes occurring in 2011 and 2012 that were detected with the help of the Initiative's ocean floor seismometers.

Weak waves mean there is less nutrient mixing, which could create an oxygen - starved ocean floor largely devoid of life, much like a pool of stagnant water, according to the new study.

Usually, the panic about the «methane bomb» from frozen ocean floor methane hydrates or methane from melting Arctic tundra.

Many surfers consider Johanna Beach, 35 kilometres west of Apollo Bay, to be one of the top surfing beaches in Victoria, with big beach breaks on the steeply sloping ocean floor and a variety of reefs and beach breaks also around Castle Cove.

But the vents, which are rich in energy sources for microbes, are poor proxies for most ocean floor sediments, where scarce nutrients could mean a lower thermal limit.

Finding that limit — the goal of the 62 - day T - Limit campaign, part of the International Ocean Discovery Program — could guide estimates of the abundance and diversity of ocean floor microbes, which play large roles in biogeochemical cycles.

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.

Rockstar have also thrown in a whole ocean floor to explore as well which promises to beat GTA III's infamous drowning as soon as your feet touch water glitch.

These include ocean floor walking in a tank full of marine animals, including hunters, and snorkelling amongst the residents of the aquarium.