Sentences with phrase «of sea floor»

• Contracted with local dive company to provide support for shockwave testing of sea floor, along with deploying electronic sniffers and magnetometers to locate oil flow.

Third, as first observed in the 1990s, the area is vulnerable to a regional ocean current, ushered in by the shape of the sea floor and the proximity of the circumpolar deep current.

If you simply pull them out of the sea floor, Bernd said, the drop in pressure as they come to the surface can make them break down in just a few minutes.

Scientists dig deep into the rock and sand of the sea floor to sample Earth's climate history many millions of years ago, since the oldest ice cores go back only 850,000 years.

«Our investigations show that uplift of the sea floor in this region, caused by the melting of the ice masses since the end of the last ice age, is probably the reason for the dissolution of methane hydrate.»

Flat stretches of sea floor offer no nooks in which to hide or lay eggs, less surface area providing a home for algae, invertebrates, and other potential food sources, and no eddies in which fish can take shelter from strong currents.

Yesterday, the Commerce Department and University of New Hampshire released the details of last summer's sonar survey of the sea floor off the Alaskan coast, which was able to push nearly 200 miles farther out toward the North Pole than it had in previous years because of the extraordinary ice retreat of 2007.

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Finally the Substrate team member records the composition of the sea floor every 50 cm.

Data on fish species, size and biomass is collected along with the benthic composition of the sea floor using this surveying method.

Day 6 Full - day island visit to either North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor, Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater or Santa Fe, one of the oldest islands of the archipelago.

Days 9 & 10 Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.

Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.

In this beach, you are allowed to enjoy the beauty of sea floor through diving.

While a very few live in tube - like structures, most live on the surface of the sea floor, attaching to hard surfaces.

For example, squirrel - fish can be found hiding in coral branches or coves, sandtile fish can be found living in burrows in the sand of the sea floor, houndfish and barracudas can be found swimming near the surface of the water, large groupers can be found hiding in overhangs or caves, and moray eels can be found hiding in holes and crevices within the corals.

Vents have been found at just about every type of sea floor spreading boundary (slow, intermediate, fast); they have been found at «hot spots»; and they have been found in back - arc basins.

Possibly 90 percent of the hydrothermal cooling of the sea floor occurs in these flanks, and yet these hydrothermal vents are largely unexplored.

Measurements of vent water taken from the time of a sea floor eruption indicate a change in the mineral composition being emitted.

Although less than 1 % of the sea floor where hydrothermal vents are suspected has been investigated, hundreds of hydrothermal vent fields have been identified around the globe in the past couple decades.

Faster sea floor spreading, presumably associated with more volcanic activity at subduction zones, and / or other increases in volcanic activity or geologic outgassing, or faster oxidation of exposed fossil organic C (as in shales)-- greater geologic CO2 emissions (I think another way of looking at the inorganic part is that any given region of sea floor has less time to accumulate carbonate minerals from chemical weathering, so that C reservoir could shrink while others, including the atmosphere, can grow).

The bubble streams showed up on sonar scans of the sea floor taken between September 2011 and August 2013 during oceanographic expeditions ranging from Cape Hatteras in North Carolina to Georges Bank off Cape Cod.

Tectonic activity beneath this submerged mountain in the central Atlantic Ocean has pushed the gabbroic layer within 70 metres of the sea floor, making it easier to reach (see diagram).

The team added other data such as the shape of the sea floor and used statistical techniques to group the results into categories.

In the study, recently published in the Journal of Ecology, researchers compared photos of sections of the sea floor, collected over 30 years, at several subtidal sites in the Southwestern Gulf of Maine.

But researchers report that they've found buried treasure under the empty waters: ancient DNA hidden in the muck of the sea floor, which lies 5000 meters below the waves.

Can Earth's ice ages be seen in the undulating fabric of the sea floor?

To find out whether the climate - driven hypothesis was possible, Olive and his colleagues modeled three different ways in which such rapid pulses of magma might change the face of the sea floor.

The models suggested it wouldn't: The magma inputs didn't significantly alter the surface of the sea floor.

In the Mediterranean, one species of invasive Red Sea foram now coats rocky reefs by the millions, outcompeting native species, and radically changing the native biodiversity of the sea 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.

«They tell us part of the story of how New Zealand and Australia separated around 40 - 80 million years ago and they'll now help scientists target future exploration of the sea floor to unlock the secrets of the Earth's crust,» Professor Arculus said.

When it died, it sank to the bottom of the sea floor with its skeleton falling apart and becoming a hub for coral and other organisms to grow on.

And Mariko Sato of the Japan Coast Guard in Tokyo and colleagues actually measured the motion of the sea floor before and after subsea GPS observations.

The alga now carpets 4600 - and - counting hectares of sea floor, wiping out native grasses from Spain to Croatia.

The variation in these distances over time is used to detect motion of the sea floor and any deformation of the network of transponders, and thus infer the displacement of the fault.

During its fruitful 16 - year career the autonomous bot made more than 200 deep dives, navigating the treacherous terrain of the sea floor and mapping underwater mountain chains with little input from above.

In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades.

To that end, Siegert is part of a team of scientists that has been examining the topography of the sea floor in the region, one piece of the puzzle.

Then, they nestled the boxes into parts of the sea floor near the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica, where they warmed a thin layer of water to 1 °C or 2 °C above the ambient temperature.

And the transformation of the sea floor, says Narbonne, «may have been the most profound change in the history of life on Earth»,.

«To scientists, that shale is the pages of the sea floor's history book.»

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

The Harry Miller, a 50 - foot vessel that recently conducted surveys of the sea floor both in Gardiner's Bay and off the south shore of the Town of East Hampton, illustrates Deepwater Wind's engagement with stakeholders as the Rhode Island company...

Rather, they show the uplifting of sea floor by plate tektonics over millions of years.

Some 1,350 metres under the surface and scattered across around 30 kilometres of sea floor, knolls from the landslide were recovered by the team.

Not exact matches

«Taking advantage of the rising - sea - floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters in height» — about 330 feet — «are possible,» Richardson said.

In its Esmeralda Villa, you could easily mistake the bathroom for a miniature spa: its floors and walls are lined with garapeira wood, there's bright white bathrobes, and daybeds are placed right in front of a floor - to - ceiling glass window that looks out over the sea.

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

The big boys like Naked Brands boasted monstrous McMansions in the form of customized booths that rose floor to ceiling with meeting rooms on the second floor where dealmakers could escape the sea of people flooding the floor.