Sentences with phrase «of ocean floor»

While a visitor to our shores might look out on the ocean and see one contiguous mass of water, our whale watching captains are looking at the contours of the ocean floor and the currents that orchestrate the feeding and migration of these animals to our waters.

What is reported as the satellite sea level has an addition for the estimated subsidence of the ocean floor.

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

Despite only covering 0.2 % of the ocean floor, nearly one million distinct species of fish, invertebrates and algae can be found among the world's reefs.

We don't know how many, other than «lots», but whenever a section of ocean floor is examined closely it seems to be followed by headlines reporting «unsuspected» venting of all kinds of hot stuff, in large quantities.

Ship - based sonar and other measurements have mapped such a small percentage of the ocean floor that it would take a single ship 200 years (or 10 ships 20 years) to measure all the ocean - floor depths, according to published U.S. Navy estimates.

However as the tsunami approaches the shore, it builds height because the constraint of the ocean floor below leaves it no where else to go, like our fossil full budget has a precise end date — immovable by politics or markets because its defined by physics and chemistry.

Their calculations allowed the researchers to see the extent to which the bottom of the ocean floor has changed over the last two decades.

Researchers said that the accuracy of future estimates of sea levels can be improved if the sinking of the ocean floor is accounted for.

«Sonar surveys of the ocean floor in the North Sea (between Britain and continental Europe) have revealed large quantities of methane hydrates and eruption sites,» May and Monaghan wrote in their report, published in the American Journal of Physics.

Although they occupy less than 1 % of the ocean floor, they provide habitat for a million species and protect coastlines against erosion from tropical storms.

Greater understanding of the ocean floor and the discoveries of features like mid-oceanic ridges, geomagnetic anomalies parallel to the mid-oceanic ridges, and the association of island arcs and oceanic trenches occurring together and near the continental margins, suggested convection might indeed be at work.

High - resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor is now being added to the ice mission's repertoire.

Challenging this predominant theory, findings from a completed study show how differences in mid-ocean ridge magma - induced activity produce distinctly different types of ocean floor faulting.

It's been said that we know more about the topography of the moon than we do about some parts of the ocean floor.

Brine temperature at surface must be equal or infinitesimally less than that of ocean floor so that brine density at surface is equal or slightly greater than that of ocean floor.

-- and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the maths to show how an increase in temperature of the vents (a tiny percentage of the ocean floor), converts to the Joules required to warm the mass of the 700-2000 meter layers of water GLOBALLY.

- Jo]- and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the maths to show how an increase in temperature of the vents (a tiny percentage of the ocean floor), converts to the Joules required to warm the mass of the 700-2000 meter layers of water GLOBALLY.

I also find it more feasible that the KNOWN increase in surface temps across the ENTIRE surface of the ocean is responsible rather than an UNKNOWN change of UNKNOWN MAGNITUDE of UNKNOWN SIGN from thermal vents that cover only a relatively small percentage of the ocean floor.

- and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the maths to show how an increase in temperature of the vents (a tiny percentage of the ocean floor), converts to the Joules required to warm the mass of the 700-2000 meter layers of water GLOBALLY.

Also after reading it the paper tends to focus on plate tectonic theory and how it can cause a cooling effect, I cant see from the paper any point about up / down lift of the ocean floor causing a change in sea level?

As bad as that sounds, they noted, there are some features of the ocean floor topography that might work to slow down the process of glacier retreat.

By obtaining a more high - resolution map of the ocean floor below the glaciers, they were able to detect an unmistakable cavity beneath the Pine Island Glacier and a slightly shallower depression beneath Thwaites Glacier.

«We can see that the red layers of the ocean floor is formed during the Ice Age's warm periods, and that proves that every time the temperature rose, water from the melting ice was poured into the ocean», says Rasmussen.

The cores coming out of the ocean floor indeed showed slow changes, and so did the ice core from Antarctica — but few understood then about how special Antarctica is, how insulated from the rest of the world its weather can be (that ring of westerlies and its vertical curtain of rising air at 60 ° S) and how its low rates of snowfall limit time resolution.

The dense salt - laden warmer water sinls to the bottom of the ucean where its movement is impeded by the hill's and valley's of the ocean floor.

Some places that are not near water may become tropical beach front property while places near water may become a part of the ocean floor.

For her solo exhibition at form & concept, Rutstein has moved away from her studies of the ocean floor in a return to broader geologic explorations.

Map of the Ocean Floor The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean.

Echo, a multi-textured piece, appears as an aqueous map of the ocean floor.

Secrets of the Deep transforms the environment to the deepest reaches of the ocean floor, complete with jellyfish and sharks swimming around, and a miniature submersible that matches the one used in the pinball machine.

The winter update for Phantasy Star Online 2 adds a new underwater zone, «Glittering Brilliance of the Ocean Floor,» and more, all previewed in the video after the jump.

Non-divers participate in surface «cage dives» and certified divers can enjoy the thrill of ocean floor cage dives.

Today, coral reefs cover less than 0.2 % of the ocean floor, but contain approximately 25 % of the ocean's species.

Divers will settle on the bottom of the ocean floor in approximately 35ft of water.

You get about 20 minutes of ocean floor time (and a free under water photo for the holiday album).

The depth of the ocean floor varies between 1/2 m 5 m between the reef and the shoreline but then right at the reef it is 1/2 m and you need to be careful to not damage the pristine reef.

This is one of the most geographically diverse of the islands, too, with soaring mountains (including Mauna Kea, which at 33,000 feet from the base of the ocean floor to its peak is quite a bit taller than even Mt. Everest), active volcanoes, lava - sand beaches, lush rainforests, the largest city outside Oahu (historic Hilo), a significant swath of desert plains, and sunny beaches lined with plush resorts.

If you love being underwater, get an extraordinary view of the ocean floor teeming with colorful marine life and coral reefs.

They sieve through the mud on the bottom of the ocean floor of the Arctic with their baleen.

We have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean floor!

As a result, the ocean sediment became land instead of ocean floor and was slowly lifted as the western flank of Oregon gained more real estate.

There is plenty to see and do in Broome, time to just relax or laze on the beach in idealic weather conditions on the famous Cable Beach, or view some of the old Pearling Luggers and marvel in the treasures found on the bottom of the ocean floor.

The ocean is crystal blue and clean with good visibility of the ocean floor.

The sandy shores and smaller wave options make Ucluelet a great place for amateurs to learn because the sand of the ocean floor is more forgiving to land on than most other beaches that have rocks or coral blanketing the floor below the water.

The Web GIS tutorial video and the teacher guide also models data exploration and analysis techniques for using the elevation - profile tool to discover that ocean bathymetry is related to both surface heat flow and the age of the ocean floor.

It offers an interactive exploration of the ocean floor in and around a hydrothermal vent.

The NeMO Explorer allows students to take virtual tours of the ocean floor with a panorama, fly through and video clips or browse the collection of information related to the research.

One is enduring captivity by jihadist fighters in Somalia while the other is exploring the greatest depths of the ocean floor from her submersible.»

The audio isn't aggressive for aggressive's sake, though, and ambient surround usage is reduced to almost nothing during scenes when the sub is stuck near the bottom of the ocean floor, an artistic decision that emphasizes a sense of profound isolation.