Sentences with phrase «ocean floor at»

Plastic pollution is surfing onto Indonesian beaches, settling onto the ocean floor at the North Pole, and rising through the food chain onto our dinner tables.

Karasik Seamount is a mountain on the ocean floor at 87 ° North and 60 ° E.

Foraminifera shells in Schneider's studies were retrieved from the sediment cores from the ocean floor at Vestnesa Ridge north west of Svalbard.

If you go snorkeling in the Caribbean you can see bubbles raising from the ocean floor at 25 meters depth.

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.

See cascading waterfalls at Niagara Falls, walk on the ocean floor at the stunning Hopewell Rocks, and experience an exciting whale watching cruise, all on this unique Canadian tour.

Fundy, in fact, has the world's highest tides and at Hopewell Rocks, which also has a visitor centre to explain the phenomenon, you can walk on the ocean floor at low tide and gaze up at the extraordinary shapes sculpted over the millennia by the rise and fall of billions of tonnes of water.

That legal framework puts a whole new emphasis on mapping and exploring the ocean floor at the edge of what is technically possible, because those efforts will determine what areas a given country can exploit later.

These dramatic changes appear to be the result of a combination of warmer air and ocean temperatures and the topography of the ocean floor at the head of the glacier.

One question that has long and intensively been discussed in research is: Where and how deep does seawater penetrate into the seafloor to take up heat and minerals before it leaves the ocean floor at hydrothermal vents?

On August 2, Russia's deep submergence vehicle, MIR - 1, planted a titanium flag 13,980 feet underwater on the ocean floor at the North Pole.

An OBS was placed at the ocean floor at 400 - meter water depth offshore Western Svalbard, and recorded every sound from the seabed and ocean for a full year.

Visitors can walk the ocean floor at low tide, and hours later kayak in 4 stories of water where they had just stood.

Not exact matches

The team onboard the Nautilus boat is also livestreaming footage they capture from the ocean floor, so you can look at more cool creatures in real - time, and listen to the crew's commentary about all of the weird stuff they find.

Investigators knew from ocean floor sediments that the climate was unstable at the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs were making their last stand.

Ultra-strong flexible pipes, remote flow - control valves, and vibration - resistant drill rigs can protect the prospecting equipment against corrosion, thermal shock, and crushing water pressure at the ocean floor.

A research team led by Chris Goldfinger at Oregon State University (OSU) used core samples from the ocean floor along the fault to establish that there have been at least 41 Cascadia events in the last ten thousand years.

Yet four decades later, the Key Largo dreamers are still at it, seeking a formula for dwellings on the ocean floor.

These include a groundwater sample found nearly 2 miles deep in a South African gold mine and at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

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.

As the pressure on the ocean floor eases, magma erupts more readily at the spreading centers, thickening the plates and creating the abyssal hills, say the authors of two new studies, one published online this week in Science (http://scim.ag/JCrowley) and another posted online in Geophysical Research Letters.

«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.

At the time, 2 km thick ice - cover loaded what now is the ocean floor with heavy weight.

Waves propagating with different wavelengths can cause wave «focusing,» in which the shape and size of obstacles and irregularities on the ocean floor cause the energy to compress at the front of the wave towards the shoreline.

Storing gas underneath the ocean floor is a «poor choice,» he said, since gas leaking at the same rate could spur acidification and harm corals and other sea life.

One cubic meter of gas hydrate on the ocean floor contains 165 cubic meters of gas at room temperature and pressure.

Over time, an extensive fossil record of G. bulloides abundance at different points in history has accumulated on the ocean floor.

Monash University geoscientist Associate Professor Wouter Schellart, and his colleague Professor Wim Spakman from Utrecht University, have discovered how the floor of an entire ocean basin that was destroyed 70 to 50 million years ago off the North coast of New Guinea is currently located at 800 - 1200 km depth below Central and South - eastern Australia.

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.

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

A solid, or bladed, type of barite had formed at the ocean floor.

Scientists thought the iron had entered the ocean from hot, mineral - rich water released at mid-ocean vents that then precipitated to the ocean floor.

Sensitive microphones on the ocean floor off Australia picked up a distinctive signal at about the time that the Boeing 777 aeroplane is believed to have crashed in the Indian Oocean floor off Australia picked up a distinctive signal at about the time that the Boeing 777 aeroplane is believed to have crashed in the Indian OceanOcean.

Before, during and after the PETM, these sediments were laid down on the sea floor at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, at depths of ~ 1000m, on the boundary between the continents and the open oOcean, at depths of ~ 1000m, on the boundary between the continents and the open oceanocean.

86 A Yeti Crab Discovered A furry - looking crustacean discovered on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean at a depth of 6,500 feet...

The study is the first to demonstrate this kind of teleconnection between the sea floor, subsea floor and microbial processes in the upper ocean, said Andy Juhl, an aquatic ecologist at Lamont and coauthor.

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.

And now new research indicates that the structures are not human - made at all, rather they are natural formations sculpted by the breakdown of methane gas within the ocean floor — millions of years before civilization.

To further investigate, researchers at the University of New Hampshire looked at seaweed populations over the last 30 years in the Southwestern Gulf of Maine and found the once predominant and towering kelp seaweed beds are declining and more invasive, shrub - like species have taken their place, altering the look of the ocean floor and the base of the marine food chain.

Not only can they hide from mackerel amongst the jellies» stinger - covered tentacles when they rise from the seafloor to feed and digest at night, they can also survive for hours within the ocean floor's low - or no - oxygen muds, which are pervaded by poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas — an inhospitable place lacking any other vertebrate species.

Lynn Neakrase at New Mexico State University and his team think they can be understood by looking at dunes that form on the floor of Earth's oceans.

Another reason to study the AMOC in the subpolar North Atlantic is that the rugged ocean floor in this region carves the current pathways up into tortuous tributaries, unlike the relatively smooth flows at 26 ° N. OSNAP's stationary moorings can not trace these meandering pathways, so the array is supplemented by drifting floats.

The currents caused by large, swirling eddies at the ocean's surface may reach all the way to the sea floor, a new study suggests.

Because more CO2 in the atmosphere makes the oceans more acidic, the event can be tracked by looking at the amount of calcium carbonate deposited on the ocean floor by marine organisms.

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.

Scientists have discovered unusual hot water vents at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, such as this stone chimney rising three stories above the sea floor.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

Why it matters: At high pressures and low temperatures, like those found in permafrost or on the ocean's floor, water molecules organize into complex hydrate lattices that are held together by hydrogen bonds.

New keys to understanding the evolution of life on Earth may be found in the microbes and minerals vented from below the ocean floor, say scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara.