Sentences with phrase «over seabed»

In one tyre alone we saw a blind shark sleeping inside, a juvenile rock cod, a lobster hiding on the other side and nudis all over the seabed.

At 40m deep, you will see thousands of nudibranchs scattered all over the seabed as far as you can see; this, together with large schools of fish creating magnificent patterns, makes for an incredible diving experience.

In the late 1990s and from 2007 to 2009, two projects released coral larvae onto healthy reefs in mesh tents pitched over the seabed.

This boundary can make or break a territorial claim over seabed resources but is often masked by thick sediment layers or other confounding features.

Not exact matches

Marine fossils are found in mountains when ancient seabeds are thrust up and made into mountain ranges over many millions of years.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea established a regulation body, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), to watch over the exploitation of the sSeabed Authority (ISA), to watch over the exploitation of the seabedseabed.

That could be one reason Russia, Denmark, and Canada are tussling over the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater formation rising 10,500 feet above the Arctic seabed.

Fisheries for scallops have grown dramatically over the past decade, but scientists have raised concerns over the damage to the seabed caused by the dredges and trawls normally used to catch them.

Using multibeam sonar, a recent expedition found that the foot of the slope north of Alaska lies much farther out than expected, potentially entitling the United States to new resource rights over hundreds of square miles of seabed.

The oxygen situation of water near the seabed is now very good, although it worsened for a time over the past year in the Bornholm basin following the lesser Baltic inflows that occurred during the winter and spring of 2014.

Water salinity near the seabed is close to 25 ‰ in parts and over 20 ‰ in all of the deeps areas, whereas the level last winter was 15 ‰ or less.

Methane clathrate has accumulated below the seabed over millions of years.

a) Satellite image showing fast disintegration of sea ice over a polar continental shelf; b) Zoobenthos on an Antarctic continental shelf; c) Examples of sea mosses (specimens on the left are from an open - water location and hence have had more plankton to feed on); and d) Dead bryozoan and other benthic skeletons covering the seabed, most likely to be buried, sequestering their blue carbon in the seabed.

In Antarctica, even though as a whole it's slightly gaining in sea ice cover, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

Recent methane measurements at Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal and Tae - ahn Peninsula, Republic of Korea (See http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/iadv/index.php) in the context of outlier data points over the last decade at sites such as Storhofdi, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and reports of methane releases from the Arctic seabed, tell us that at current levels of AGW, the Earth's sea - floor methane systems are not stable.

For over 400 years, she was buried in clay on the seabed at a depth of 14 metres off the south coast of England, until marine archaeologists salvaged her in 1982.

The beautiful pink Himalayan sea salt is harvested from ancient seabeds, originally formed from marine fossil deposits over 250 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

Over the last two years, as I have tried to tease out the truths from the untruths in that series of events that seeped out through Elizabeth's death, like lava moving upwards and outwards through salt water from a tear in the seabed, I have had to be you several times, Cameron Brown, in order to claw myself towards some kind of coherence.

Over the years many shells and hard and soft corals have attached themselves to the hull, which has become an artificial reef and naturally attracts large schools of fish from the flat, sandy seabed.

Decide to either swim over the reef crest and down the wall or find one of the narrow grooves and follow them seaward being careful not to stir up the sedimentary sand of the seabed.

With over 400 square miles of complete freedom from sky to seabed and a huge arsenal of weaponry, gadgets and vehicles, prepare to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways you can imagine.

Indeed, at the bottom of the market, there are perhaps greater opportunities for those who make games than ever before, but the lower market is competing for the scraps left over from the gorging behemoths above them, like crabs scuttling about for the tiny morsels that fall to the seabed after the giant sharks have fed.

With over 1000 km ² of complete freedom from sky to seabed and a huge arsenal of weaponry, gadgets and vehicles, prepare to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways you can imagine.

You will be able to see one such flat - pack cathedral — which spent well over a thousand years on the seabed — reconstructed at the Ashmolean Museum's exhibition (above).

BP, by dint of circumstance, has had nearly complete control over the flow of information from its destroyed seabed well — including this video feed.

I just go to the section where they get into discussing Arctic seabed methane in more detail, and the conclusion of that section is actually: «In summary, the ocean methane hydrate pool has strong potential to amplify the human CO2 release from fossil fuel combustion over time scales of decades to centuries.»

There's intensified international jockeying over Arctic Ocean seabed resources, with Russia in August updating its claim to a vast region under the Law of the Sea convention (which the United States still has not ratified).

Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cautioned that the new findings were based on a single, fairly simple simulation and said that while the results matched well with the seabed evidence, they lacked the precision needed to know what will happen over short periods.

Obama administration officials faced growing challenges over the unabated oil gusher on the Gulf of Mexico seabed on Tuesday as analysis of ocean currents appeared to raise the odds that Florida reefs and beaches could be tainted before the month is out.

BP last night resolved questions about the fate of the oil it was now salvaging in growing quantities from its gushing seabed well, announcing that it will create a wildlife fund with all of its net revenues from selling the oil it skims from the sea surface or collects through the siphon positioned over the leak.

This summer, scientists taking part in the six - week International Siberian Shelf Study discovered numerous areas, spread over thousands of square miles, where large quantities of methane — a gas with 20 - times the heat - trapping power of carbon dioxide — rose from the once - frozen seabed floor.

As it happens, the extra heat travels into shallow seas along the continental shelf and, over time, the warming also spreads to the deep seabed, destabilizing methane hydrates and free gas trapped over millennia in the permafrost cap.

It balances recognition of the inherent rights of a coastal state over its continental shelf with the interest of the international community in defining the limits of seabed beyond national jurisdiction, where the mineral resources are the common heritage of mankind and are administered through the International Seabed Authseabed beyond national jurisdiction, where the mineral resources are the common heritage of mankind and are administered through the International Seabed AuthSeabed Authority.

It is likely to be emitted as the seabed warms, either steadily over 50 years or suddenly.

It is likely to be emitted as the seabed warms, either steadily over 50 years or suddenly [6].»

The commercial fishing industry began indiscriminately plowing through the seabed with scallop dredges, repeatedly passing over the same area to maximize their catch.

That warming extends the 50 m or so to the seabed because we are dealing with only a polar surface water layer here (over the shelves the Arctic Ocean structure is one - layer rather than three layers) and the surface warming is mixed down by wave - induced mixing because the extensive open water permits large fetches.

Haida Nation has claimed aboriginal rights and title over Haida Gwaii, and its claim includes «the land, inland waters, seabed, archipelagic waters, air space, and everything contained thereon and therein,» thus including private lands and Crown grants of tenures, permits, and leases.