Sentences with phrase «oil seeps»

Lubchenco cautioned that oil samples needed to be chemically fingerprinted, because of the potential for confusion with natural oil seeping into the gulf.

Vacuum booster tube routing may let engine oil seep into the brake booster diaphragm, leading to loss of brake assist and increased braking distances.

In the water above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas bubbles rise almost a mile to break at the surface, scientists have discovered something unusual: phytoplankton, tiny microbes at the base of the marine food chain, are thriving.

About 0.6 kilograms of methane emerge each second in the summer, Mumma said, which is comparable to the emissions from a natural oil seep near Santa Barbara, California.

Subramaniam and Juhl, along with colleagues in the Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG) consortium, began studying interactions around oil seeps after the Deepwater Horizon oil well disaster in 2010, to better understand what happens to oil during catastrophic gushers and to find ways to better respond to similar disasters in the future.

Whether it be with her subjects of exploding stars, topological vibrations, folding, or crude oil seeping through a sheet of paper, traces of events mark Dorothea Rockburne's work.

But natural oil seeps off California...

He had reliable information — from a Spaniard who knew a cattle - herder who knew the Venezuelan president personally — that more oil seeps had been discovered and that further concessions would soon be granted.

The tar pits are a natural oil seep with oil coming to the surface throughout the park, both directly through the soil and in water features.

Each time the ship crossed over a known oil seep, he noticed a spike in phytoplankton abundance.

Lead author Nigel D'Souza, then a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont, discovered the phytoplankton response to oil seeps while on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence — energy that is emitted as light by compounds inside phytoplankton cells used for photosynthesis.

Over oil seeps, D'Souza found that the population was about double the usual amount.

MacDonald had been working on data using satellite images of natural oil seeps for 10 years and added in the Deepwater Horizon spill work a few years ago.

Analysis of samples from the outcrop convinced the researchers that the «coal» was in fact a fossilized oil seep dating to the late Paleocene / early Eocene.

The Phyo Replenish Oil seeps into skin seamlessly leaving no oil slick whatsoever.

Yop is a combination of pine pitch and asphaltum which occurs naturally in the Channel and along the coast from oil seeping into the water from below the earth's surface.

We have not yet been to those depths to survey the communities that we know about — mostly natural oil seep communities, some within 6 miles of the Deepwater Horizon — to see if they have been impacted.

Their company was in need of someone to travel around and check out possible oil seeps — and Drake's free train use made him the ideal candidate for the job.

Hazen, who has studied previous oil spill sites, notes that natural oil seeps in the region ensure a constant presence of such cold - loving oil - eaters.

Do you know that oil seeps through the floor of the ocean but it never reaches the surface, because it gets destroyed because the seawater is pretty powerful stuff.

One we're watching: Reports are emerging that what was initially reported as a natural oil seep off the coast of Brazil might be coming from a Chevron appraisal well instead.

«In Gulf Of Mexico, microbes thrive above natural oil seeps: New insight into how plankton and oil interact.»

They have the strangest consistency — the way the oil seeps out of them when they get stuck in your teeth lol I wil certainly be giving this a try for breakfast.

That is what happens when you fry in vegetable oil... the oil seeps into what you are frying and you end up with something very greasy.

It is amazing to see the oil seep out of the walnut seed with even a light crush, so richly abundant it is!

Frying things scares me now, just watching all of the oil seep into the food.

Let it sit for 1 - 2 days before using to let it oil seep in.

«The Gulf is a great place for these bacteria because it has more natural oil seeps than any other place in the world,» Hazen says.

Gas and oil seeps have been part of religious and cultural practices for thousands of years.

The result: phytoplankton concentrations above oil seeps are as much as twice the size of populations only a few kilometers away.

Gas - oil seeps have been the source of mythological tales, and many a Biblical and historic event.

It also shows how the Gulf has adapted to natural oil seeps.

The results published in Nature Geoscience show that phytoplankton concentrations near the oil seeps were as much as twice as productive as those a few kilometers away where there were no seeps.

And more importantly, their data creates a map, showing where the active natural oil seeps are located.

Researcher Ajit Subramaniam, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, used the data set to focus on natural oil seeps and discovered something unusual — phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain — were thriving in the area of these natural oil seeps.

The researchers report that the oil seep developed after a dramatic drop in water levels in the Gulf, triggered by evaporation and coinciding with the PETM, the previously reported surge in temperatures.

Since I have combination skin that weighs more on the oily side most of the time, you can probably imagine that if I have too much fried food and junk during the week, I can see the oil seeping out of my skin all day and I spend so much time bloating and dabbing it away.

Greg Lindquist is an artist and environmental advocate, whose paintings bring light to corporate (coal ash spills) and natural (oil seeping) pollution of rivers and lakes.

[On Monday morning, Thad W. Allen, who is overseeing the operation for the government, issued a statement allowing pressure testing of the well to continue into Tuesday, as the gas and oil seeps were investigated.]

The work with naturally occurring gas hydrates led to physical chemsitry studies of the associated gas and oil seeps.

Upon finding the oil seep, Drake tried to use a steam - powered drill to dig into the ground towards its source, but encountered a problem.

Methane has also been seeping from marshes, bubbling out of oceans, leaking from coal seams and oil seeps and being released in huge quantities from volcanoes.