Methane hydrates are 3D ice - lattice structures with natural gas locked inside, and are found both onshore and offshore — including under the Arctic permafrost and in
ocean sediments along nearly every continental shelf in the world.
Not exact matches
Approximately 90 % of excavated seabed would be returned to the
ocean floor
along with tailings, creating a
sediment plume approximately 1000 square kilometres in size.
Finds like that,
along with
sediment cores and ice cores that show how the amount of methane in the atmosphere and
ocean has fluctuated dramatically in the past, have led to a slew of «methane burp» theories.
To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up
sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents
along the East Pacific Rise, an
ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.
To untangle the impacts that these three climate stressors will have on seafloor diversity in the future, the researchers examined existing published data and collected new data on organisms living in deep - sea
sediments in upwelling regions
along continental margins, where the
ocean and continental crusts meet
along the seafloor.
Most of the deposits, some small and some large, are buried in or below permafrost and
sediments in the
ocean bottom
along continental margins — where shallow offshore waters slope down toward the deeper
ocean floor.
Now researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have devised a simple way to predict a river delta's shape, given two competing factors: its river's force in depositing
sediment into the
ocean, and
ocean waves» strength in pushing that
sediment back
along the coast.
Breakers scrape
sediments off the
ocean floor and move the
sediments along the coastline.
For a long time people thought that
ocean pH was regulated ultimately by reactions between deep seawater and
sediments, but as Walt Allensworth February 5, 2015 at 3:08 pm, says there are so many black, and clear, vents
along the midocean ridges spewing acidic water, that these probably maintain
ocean pH instead.
They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and
along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying
along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the
ocean.
Hemant Shah, president and CEO of Newark, Calif. - based RMS, identifies three troubling factors: the city is sinking due to thick
sediments accumulating
along the Atlantic
Ocean's basin; accelerated climate change in making the sea level rise, and the level of Atlantic basin hurricane activity has increased in recent years.