Sentences with phrase «on midocean»

Clustered there, on the midocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands, were giant clams and mussels and six - foot - long tube worms, anchored to the ground and sticking upright.

And the Nankai Trough sediments are starkly different from another high - temperature environment, the hydrothermal vents on midocean ridges.

Not exact matches

The study suggests that layers of sediments perhaps 10 to 20 meters thick can seal the sea floor and make seamounts the most important conduits for heat and fluid flow — especially on the sloping flank of a midocean ridge, says oceanographer John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

The marks they leave on passing plates include volcanoes, swells and midocean plateaus

The new find confirms that the ancient lavas formed at midocean ridges and found throughout deep ocean basins are by volume the largest ecosystem on Earth, scientists say.

It is implausible that this much magma production — more than 40 times the annual midocean ridge magma supply — is going unnoticed, on land or beneath the sea.

[5][6] It is not clear where the energy that leaves the generation site is dissipated, but there are 3 possible processes: 1) the internal tides scatter and / or break at distant midocean topography, 2) interactions with other internal waves remove energy from the internal tide, or 3) the internal tides shoal and break on continental shelves.