Sentences with phrase «of the ocean floor»

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

About one percent of the ocean floor is covered by coral reefs.

Researchers put a number on how much seawater the world has, based on new data about the shape of the ocean floor.

In addition, the scientists have used seismic methods to investigate the structure of the ocean floor up to a depth of 30 kilometres.

By examining variations in the depth of the ocean floor, the researchers were able to construct the mantle's movements.

Scientists think that the mantle is like marble cake, mixed up by swirling together bits of ocean floor and primordial rock.

This quick displacement of the ocean floor can cause a tsunami.

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

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

Only about 11 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in detail.

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.

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

- 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.

These dramatic changes appear to be the result of a combination of warmer air and ocean temperatures and the topography of the ocean floor at the head of the glacier.

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

«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.

The South Atlantic team went looking for DNA in plugs of silt and clay coaxed out of the ocean floor hundreds of kilometers off the Brazilian coast.

NEPTUNE Canada is the leading effort to wire a wide region of ocean floor with multiple sensors, making real - time, interactive data streams freely available to anyone online.

On 13 September, the research vessel Chikyu will set sail from Shimizu, Japan, and sink its bits into a patch of ocean floor where the sediments should reach 130 °C at the maximum drill depth of 1260 meters.

Orange Roughy The trawling of broad swaths of ocean floor off the New Zealand coast has stripped the ocean of orange roughy.

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

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

«However, the colleagues back then were able to simulate only a much smaller region of the ocean floor and therefore identified only the short paths near the black smokers,» says Hasenclever.

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

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.

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.

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

She wonders if the voluntary simplicity movement is like «a change in the geography of the ocean floor that's creating a swell on the surface but won't impact the shore.

As a result, not only is the majority of the ocean floor unmapped, but an estimated 60 % to 90 % of marine species are still unknown to science.

Sea cucumbers, or holothurians, normally seen crawling incredibly slowly over the flat abyssal plains of the ocean floor, were found on steep slopes, small ledges and rock faces of the underwater mountain range.

Finding that limit — the goal of the 62 - day T - Limit campaign, part of the International Ocean Discovery Program — could guide estimates of the abundance and diversity of ocean floor microbes, which play large roles in biogeochemical cycles.

Rolf B. Pedersen, a professor at the University of Bergen, has been active in the exploration of the ocean floor along the Mid-Atlantic ridge.

The institute carries out research world - wide around four main themes: climate dynamics based on oceanographic, geological, and meteorological investigations; marine biogeochemistry; marine ecology; and the dynamics of the ocean floor.

New, improved human - operated and robotic submarines promise to give scientists access to most of the ocean floor, a place less explored than the moon or Mars

But in the seas, a colorful population of marine bivalves — the group including oysters, clams and scallops — soldiered on, tucked into the crevices of ocean floors and shorelines.

Bottom trawlers often destroy marine habitats by flattening corals and pinnacles — but much of the ocean floor is covered in sand and mud.

Researchers do believe that climate change contributes to more thawing of the ocean floor permafrost in the Arctic because they have measured increases in seafloor temperatures in recent years.

Morlighem noted, «OMG [data are] not only improving our knowledge of the ocean floor, they're improving our knowledge of the topography of the land, too.»

Douglas Wilson, a geophysicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his colleagues traveled 500 miles west of Costa Rica to an area of ocean floor that formed 15 million years ago.

These so - called abyssal hills, some a few hundred meters high, are the most abundant topographic feature on Earth, covering about a third of the ocean floor.

Studying movement of the ocean floor currently requires installing acoustic transponders on the bottom and sending a research vessel out to ping them, which can cost half a million dollars per data point.

To further investigate, researchers at the University of New Hampshire looked at seaweed populations over the last 30 years in the Southwestern Gulf of Maine and found the once predominant and towering kelp seaweed beds are declining and more invasive, shrub - like species have taken their place, altering the look of the ocean floor and the base of the marine food chain.

UNITED NATIONS — The biggest land grab since colonial times is accelerating as nations scramble to claim writ over hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, much of it believed to be rich in natural resources.

Understanding how the methane concentration of the ocean floor is regulated, he adds, may give scientists insights into periodic methane «blowoffs» that seem to accompany periods of global warming.

Seabed 2030 aims to map the entirety of the ocean floor by 2030.

It will compile all available and newly collected bathymetric data into a single high - quality, high - resolution digital model of the ocean floor and promote international collaborative efforts to collect new data.

These trenches form along subduction zones where slabs of the ocean floor slide into the Earth.