Sentences with phrase «ocean floor material»

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.

Not exact matches

«The hypothesis that the floor of the oceans has been spreading seeks to explain some characteristics of ocean basins and the continents by supposing that material welling up from the interior of the earth forms mid-ocean ridges and then, as new material rises, moves outward, away from the ridges.

«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.

Samples from a mud volcano contain biological signatures that suggest microbes lived in the material when it was rock several kilometres beneath the ocean floor

Deploying new sensors that drift with sometimes strong currents (allowing better measurement of marine snow than sensors placed on the ocean floor or tethered to the surface), the team sampled the flora and fauna and measured the amount of falling carbon material captured to assess the role of the ocean as a true carbon sink.

Samples from a mud volcano contain biological signatures that suggest microbes lived in the material when it was several kilometres beneath the ocean floor.

«To get relatively uncontaminated material from the ocean floor is quite difficult.»

The sands of the island, the beaches, material on the sea floor between the island and the reef, the makeup of the reef itself and the material shed from the reef into the deeper ocean offshore are composed dominantly of calcium carbonate with some magnesium carbonate.

The entire unit has exquisite marble and solid hardwood flooring, vaulted ceilings with crown molding, natural native materials and old - world craftsmanship, wireless Internet (Wi - Fi) access and global Vonage phone service and of course panoramic ocean views with magnificent sunsets.

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Designed by famed Balinese architect Popo Danes, Cemara's five ocean - facing living and sleeping pavilions feature light interiors liberally adorned with finely crafted local materials: alang - alang thatched roofs; Palimanan and terrazzo floors; river - stone walls; elaborately carved and gilded teakwood doors.

Alternating patterns of magnetic anomalies on the ocean floor indicated seafloor spreading, where new plate material is born.