Sentences with phrase «ocean floors drop»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Yet we know that life on Earth can thrive in extreme conditions: from the Antarctic (where temperatures can drop to almost -90 °C) to hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor (where temperatures can exceed 460 °C).

The cemented granules had formed in the water, then fused after dropping to the ocean floor.

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

They were on their way to migrate south, but the rapidly dropping temperatures have frozen the sea all the way to the ocean floor, blocking their only path.

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.

Just beyond these colorful coral gardens, the sea floor drops steeply into a trench known as the Tongue of the Ocean, which plunges to depths of more than 6,000 feet and is home to marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, and other large fish species.

We will swim over to the edge of the collapse and drop down in between the collapse and the ocean floor to 100 feet.

Dropping sharply into a trench known as the Tongue of the Ocean, the sea floor plunges to depths of more than 6,000 feet and is home to marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, marlin, and other large fish species.

The minimalist luxury estate has jaw - dropping 360 - degree panoramic ocean views from its floor to ceiling windows throughout all living spaces.

Luxury appointments and finishes, granite counter tops, stainless appliances along with jaw dropping ocean views through the floor to ceiling windows make this a must see for anyone considering a luxury purchase in Central America.

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).

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.

Glaciation left an extensive geologic record on the continents in the form of predominantly unconsolidated tills and glacial moraines, which in North America extend in a line as far south as Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Long Island, New York, and on the ocean floor in the form of ice - rafted detritus dropped from calving icebergs.

The reason why the water on the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean is getting less salty is because the melting ice is dropping straight down to the ocean fOcean is getting less salty is because the melting ice is dropping straight down to the ocean focean floor.

I can only list a few regular «goings on'that I KNOW affect sea level; I'm certain that there are others: Change in overall temperature of the oceans (a few millidegrees / mm), plate tectonics, slit from rivers, erosion of seashores, extraction of ground water which ultimately returns to the oceans, marine life and its products building up the ocean floors, melting land ice, undersea discharges of a variety of «stuff» from literally hundreds of thousands of sources, often at temperatures in the 1 - 2 thousand degree range, which we are only now beginning to notice, wind carrying dust from the land and dropping it on the ocean.