Sentences with phrase «ocean floor off»

In particular, they say that natural chemical reactions under 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) of ocean floor off California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia could lock in as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 production

It began with an earthquake on the ocean floor off the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia.

The discovery of a vast lake of liquid carbon dioxide beneath the ocean floor off Taiwan has startled earth scientists and raised hopes for a new strategy against carbon dioxide — related global warming.

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 Ocean.

Researchers have found tectonic features on the ocean floor off the Alaska coast similar to those that drove the 2011 earthquake in Japan

Next summer, they are hoping to check out the ocean floor off the coast of Long Beach, California, in search of deep sea coral.

When magma erupted from a crack in the ocean floor off El Hierro, the youngest, westernmost island, local volcanologist Vicente Soler headed out to sea, looking for answers.

Not exact matches

A craft exploring the ocean's floor off the coast of California had a weird encounter this week.

A robot BP was using under the water in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally bumped a vent, causing BP to have to remove the containment cap that was siphoning off some of the oil gushing from the ocean floor.

The ship is equipped with a SeaBeam system, which bounces a sonar signal off the ocean floor while tracing a back - and - forth swath over the area like a lawnmower.

Lomonosov was likely a slice of the Siberian shelf that broke off northward during the Cenozoic era when the Eurasian Basin opened up on the Arctic Ocean floor, but its current ties to Russia are disputed.

In the first large - scale attempt to track fish with an acoustic tracking array on the sea floor, David Welch, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and his colleagues deployed a line of receivers on the sea floor, spaced roughly 1 km apart, off the coast of Vancouver Island.

«The largest known deposit on the ocean floor is in Middle Valley in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off Caocean floor is in Middle Valley in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off CaOcean, off Canada.

Megaplumes, however, can soar more than several thousand feet off the ocean floor and spin like slow but gargantuan tornadoes.

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.

Forty years ago when hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor were first discovered, scientists were amazed to find life where no sunlight penetrated, feeding off of sulfur gases.

Last year, her research team delivered the coup de grâce: evidence of an impact crater off the northwest coast of Australia, hidden beneath two miles of sediment on the ocean floor.

Scientists excavating the ocean floor have found huge chunks of frozen methane along Hydrate Ridge, about 60 miles off the coast of Oregon.

Fragments peel off here and there; some of it drops to the ocean floor.

Nearly two miles deep in the ocean, a hundred miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, scientists during two cruises a year apart used subsea vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of sea floor made of cooled and hardened lava from an underwater volcano.

DDT off Los Angeles: What happened to the 110 tons of DDT on the ocean floor?

With one he is hoping to get in on the ground floor of the old ocean - bottom manganese - nodule business, version 2.0, which he thinks is poised to take off in a decade or so.

By 2100, climate change could be responsible for a massive die - off on the ocean floor, due to a paucity of nutrients floating down from the surface.

No one disputes that a lot of oil lies untapped under the rocky floors of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans off the U.S. coasts, in areas where Congress has banned drilling since 1982.

One morning last August, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's deep - sea robot, named Doc Ricketts, was snooping around the ocean floor in 1,812 meters of very cold water off the coast of northern California.

Judging from how many new species they found each time they lowered their device 7,000 feet onto the continental slope off New Jersey, Grassle and Maciolek estimated that there were up to 10 million animal species living on the ocean floor.

Recently, while searching the ocean's depths off the coast of Santa Monica, California, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists discovered something odder still: a remarkable new virus that seemingly infects methane - eating archaea living beneath the ocean's floor.

Traces of the break - up process can be found on the newly formed ocean floor: the Walvis Ridge off the coast of Northern Namibia images the track of the mantle plume.

Worth New York's off the shoulder dress in pale azurine proved to be the perfect option when visiting La Valencia's 7th floor terrace, MED Ocean View Restaurant, for a quick lunch overlooking the colorful gardens and pool.

Cameras follow a dying shark that's had all its fins sawed off, as it falls to the ocean floor in immense pain.

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These seamounts, or underwater mountains, rise more than a thousand feet off the ocean floor, triggering a natural upwelling of nutrient - rich seawater that in turn attracts baitfish and the open - sea predators that feed upon them.

The ocean floor drops off pretty close to shore and surf tends to be rough with strong rip currents coming through the bay without any warning.

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This trip was quite humbling as I had never imagined how insignificant you could feel when you are just a tiny speck in the middle of the Indian ocean, or that you could get vertigo swimming past the drop - offs that mark the edge of a coral reef as the ocean floor plummets away suddenly by hundreds of feet.

Our Getaway features expansive ocean views, timber look floors, air conditioning, an en - suite off the master bedroom, a second bedroom with either a King Double bed or 2 x king single beds and a 3rd bedroom with 2 x single beds.

Second floor villa with great ocean views and balconies off every bedroom.

As she reached old age, she was designated to become an artificial reef off the Cancun coast and has since been part of life on the ocean floor.

And you don't have to go far to hook up — good catches take place as close as one quarter mile offshore all three Cayman Islands, where the ocean floor drops off sharply, plummeting thousands of feet and creating a natural thoroughfare for the big migratory pelagic species prized by anglers.

Step outside and take in the fresh ocean air — this fourth - floor suite features a balcony spanning the length of the living room, plus two larger balconies off the bedrooms.

Ananta Legian Hotel is located on Legians Jalan Werkudara, which is huddled away off the Jalan Arjuna main beach street.While not a beachfront hotel, Ananta Legian is only a short stroll away to the coastline, particularly Legians Double Six Beach (also referred to as Blue Ocean Beach) that is right at the end of the road.This strip is also shared by some of the areas great international restaurants, laid - back cafes and lively nightlife spots.The Ananta Legian Hotel comprises a cool collection of guestrooms and suites on five levels overlooking a centrepiece pool.The Deluxe Rooms are neat and available in double and twin bed configurations, and for those looking for direct pool access can opt for one of the Deluxe Pool Access rooms on the ground floor.

These newly renovated walkout ocean view rooms are conveniently located on the ground floor of the Caribbean Beachfront Village, just a few short steps off of Negril's famous 7 - mile beach.

Scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel (E / V) Nautilus were exploring the Arguello Canyon off the Channel Islands in California when they spotted a small purple blob on the ocean floor.

Breakers scrape sediments off the ocean floor and move the sediments along the coastline.

Unless you imagine that the ocean is magically levitating off the ocean floor or chemically splitting into hydrogen gas and oxygen / chlorine, that energy can only appear as heat.

So unless there is a permanent, drastic, progressive and one - way alteration in the chemical makeup of the oceans over geological epochs (which would entail the massive evolution of hydrogen gas and the production of oxygen, chlorine or hydrogen peroxide) or a similarly huge increase in its potential energy (levitating it off the ocean floor), the energy involved will still have to be dissipated as heat (there's nowhere else for it to go, unless you get all science - fictiony and assume it vanishes into hyperspace or turns into neutrinos or something).

In the former, we try to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and get it back in the ground; or we shunt CO2 aside at the smokestack before it gets to the atmosphere, and bury or store it; or we promote algae blooms that absorb CO2 at the ocean surface and then die off and carry it to the ocean floor.

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).

Most warming is along the Antarctic Peninsula, where theglaciers that used to move down onto the ocean floor are meltingunderneath, forming ice shelves which are breaking off.

However, the cost of getting methane hydrate off the ocean floor just isn't (IMO) going to drop as fast as the cost of solar hydrogen.