Sentences with phrase «on ocean floors»

Now, a new report says that if we keep cooking the planet, there will be mass starvation on ocean floors and a decrease in the human food supply as well.

[1] Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System, where temperatures are low and water ice is common, significant deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of the Earth.

[1] Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System where temperatures are low and water ice is common, significant deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of Earth.

And petroleum — there aren't any oil shales on the ocean floors, the precursors of petroleum, so where is the carbon for this coming from?

Possible run - away greenhouse due to such things as release of the methane clathrate (hydrate) on the ocean floors;

Tsunamis are huge and destructive waves that result from earthquakes on the ocean floors.

This documentary from National Geographic takes a super in - depth look at the mysterious creature the Blue Whale, exploring how the effects of currents on the ocean floors influence the ways the massive creatures travel and eat, and even examining the animals» DNA.

The Markagunt gravity slide, the size of three Ohio counties, is one of the two largest known continental landslides (larger slides exist on the ocean floors).

Bacteria far, far, far precede humans on Earth; they have survived numerous catastrophes; and they inhabit virtually every location on the Earth, including frozen Antarctica and super-hot thermal vents on the ocean floors.

Dr. Shivji tells of sharks that use this extrasensory ability to hunt stingrays that hide beneath sediment on the ocean floor.

This adds length, and the excess cable forms a «U» shape on the ocean floor.

Yet we know that life on Earth can thrive in extreme conditions: from the Antarctic (where temperatures can drop to almost -90 °C) to hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor (where temperatures can exceed 460 °C).

It is near the ocean that the giant cat fish causes tsunamis by beating his tail on the ocean floor.

I vaguely collect reading that there was a lot of methane on the ocean floor (as methane clathrate), plus occasional pockets of oil (through accumulation of perished marine life).

Since then, many other possible crucibles have been identified: deep underground, in the open ocean, by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, on a radioactive beach and on the surface of a lump of clay.

A newly discovered reservoir of rare earths, which are needed for high - tech, automotive and renewable energy applications, may remain on the ocean floor for some time

Those analyses are likely to take several weeks, but should provide important insights about the composition of the global ocean beneath Enceladus» surface and any hydrothermal activity occurring on the ocean floor.

Craig McClain holds a giant isopod specimen similar to the one he saw on the ocean floor during his first deep - sea dive.

They're typically found on the ocean floor in large groups.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

From the great ocean liner's construction to its sinking to its discovery on the ocean floor, the key moments in the Titanic's history.

Even in the deepest, darkest, most inaccessible location on the planet, the impact of human civilization is still evident on the ocean floor.

He also said that their feeding pattern is distinct because the area where they've settled has a limited supply of food available on the ocean floor, and an abundance near the surface.

Most of Earth was covered with ocean in the Archean era, and any asteroid scars on the ocean floor would have been recycled back into our planet's interior millions of years ago.

Yet four decades later, the Key Largo dreamers are still at it, seeking a formula for dwellings on the ocean floor.

These include a groundwater sample found nearly 2 miles deep in a South African gold mine and at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

«Ice VII» has such a high density so that it settles on the ocean floor.

When the weather warms and no ice sits upon the seas, the sediment on the ocean floor is mainly organic: remains of plankton and diatoms.

If there is any place on earth you might expect to find them — the true believers in the imminent coming of manned undersea outposts or spectacular domed colonies on the ocean floor — it would be here, in Key Largo.

Somehow it looks as if it's been down here for decades; the device's cables, lying unattached on the ocean floor, now resemble tentacles.

This chemical reaction between rock and water occurs, for example, in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

SEALAB by Ben Hellwarth In the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean floor.

As the pressure on the ocean floor eases, magma erupts more readily at the spreading centers, thickening the plates and creating the abyssal hills, say the authors of two new studies, one published online this week in Science (http://scim.ag/JCrowley) and another posted online in Geophysical Research Letters.

Waves propagating with different wavelengths can cause wave «focusing,» in which the shape and size of obstacles and irregularities on the ocean floor cause the energy to compress at the front of the wave towards the shoreline.

One cubic meter of gas hydrate on the ocean floor contains 165 cubic meters of gas at room temperature and pressure.

Song's technique predicts the exact scale of a tsunami by tracking ground motions to estimate how much water has been displaced on the ocean floor — and, by extension, how much energy is feeding the wave.

Researchers have found tectonic features on the ocean floor off the Alaska coast similar to those that drove the 2011 earthquake in Japan

The authors argue that it comes from hydrothermal activity on the ocean floor, perhaps seafloor vents like those on Earth that spew H2 and support rich microbial life.

Over time, an extensive fossil record of G. bulloides abundance at different points in history has accumulated on the ocean floor.

«The largest known deposit on the ocean floor is in Middle Valley in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off Canada.

Nautilus Minerals will use submersible robots to work on the ocean floor and break apart loose ore.

It begins eating fish from the age of six months or so, sometimes grabbing large prey and rubbing it on the ocean floor or smacking it on the water's surface to break it into bite - size bits.

A deposit of 110 tons of the banned pesticide has rapidly shrunk on the ocean floor and cast doubt on the need to mount an expensive cleanup

That may in turn have caused the planet to heat up enough to melt deposits of methane frozen in sediments on the ocean floor (something, incidentally, that could happen again), discharging even more potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and further heating the planet in an escalating feedback loop.

The newfound population of snailfish, which feed on tiny shrimp that scavenge detritus on the ocean floor, are believed to be the deepest living fish ever recorded.

Scientists» understanding of the climate during the Pliocene has largely been pieced together from fossil records preserved in sediments deposited beneath lakes and on the ocean floor.

But with each whale sunk, Smith learns a little bit more about one of the oddest and most fascinating habitats on the ocean floor.

A lucky fossil find and a novel imaging technique have brought researchers closer to understanding the mysterious origins of the sea spider, a spindly arachnid that dwells on the ocean floor.

The model therefore reinforces the idea that there is strong heat production in Enceladus's deep interior that may power the hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

Forty years ago when hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor were first discovered, scientists were amazed to find life where no sunlight penetrated, feeding off of sulfur gases.