Sentences with phrase «ridge system»

The volcanoes lie along the Gakkel Ridge, a remote and mostly unexplored section of the mid-ocean ridge system that runs through the Arctic Ocean.

The 2013 — 2014 California drought was initiated by an anomalous high - amplitude ridge system.

Similarly, the seafloor mid-ocean ridge system scales up to the equivalent of 135 such systems.

The direct linkages between life and planetary processes on the volcanically active, deep - sea, mid-ocean ridge system can only be understood through tightly integrated studies across a broad range of disciplines in geophysics, geology, chemistry, biology, and oceanography, according to the NSF.

The team describes newly discovered geological and biological manifestations of hydrothermal activity at two sites on young abyssal hills flanking the East Pacific Rise, a fast - spreading portion of the global mid-ocean ridge system.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000 is «an interdisciplinary initiative to study the Earth's oceanic spreading ridge system as an integrated whole, from its inception in the mantle to its manifestations in the biosphere and water column.»

Part of the global mid-ocean ridge system that encircles the planet, these regions generate 70 percent of Earth's tectonic plates.

The complexity of a two - ridge system was not previously known, Legg said.

Delaney was griping to Chave that the occasional dive in a submersible just wasn't cutting it for learning how ridge systems worked.

As in previous dry periods, precipitation - inducing winter storms were steered away from California by a persistent atmospheric ridging system in the North Pacific.

Not exact matches

Although scientists have drilled into the buried crater before on land, this is the first offshore effort, and also the first to go after the crater's «peak ring» — a circular ridge inside the crater rim that's characteristic of the solar system's largest impact craters.

Fingerprint identification (also referred to as individualization) occurs when an expert (or an expert computer system operating under threshold scoring rules) determines that two friction ridge impressions originated from the same finger or palm (or toe, sole) to the exclusion of all others.

The high - pressure system is wreaking havoc on an already parched landscape; thunderstorms rising around the edge of the ridge spark wildfires.

The side of Pluto's largest moon viewed by NASA's passing New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 is characterized by a system of «pull apart» tectonic faults, which are expressed as ridges, scarps and valleys — the latter sometimes reaching more than 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) deep.

Those waves, in turn, led to the formation at midlatitudes of high - pressure systems, or «ridges.»

The five - year drought was exacerbated by an atmospheric pressure system in the North Pacific Ocean that researchers dubbed the «ridiculously resilient ridge,» which pushed storms farther north and deprived the Southwest of precipitation.

By drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180 - kilometer - wide crater rim, researchers also hope to nail down the processes that form «peak rings»: hallmarks of the largest impact craters, which planetary scientists have seen elsewhere in the solar system but which erosion has erased from other big craters on Earth.

In a field study, Diane Adams, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and her colleagues measured the currents near the seafloor along the East Pacific Rise, a submarine ridge south - southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that sports many hydrothermal vent systems.

When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

The mid-ocean ridge is an interconnected system of undersea volcanoes that meander over the Earth like the raised seams on a baseball.

Those icy ridges found on the Tartarus Dorsa region of Pluto are similar to the so - called penitentes on Earth, making it possible for the same features to exist elsewhere in the solar system, a new study has found.

Marine geological and geophysical exploration methods, ocean ridge processes, continental margin processes, slope stability, marine mineral resources, seafloor hydrothermal systems, acoustic imaging and quantification of hydrothermal flow

A blocking high pressure system in the North Atlantic creating consistent strong northeasterly flow would provide wave action that may have contributed to the chevron ridge formation in the Bahamas and Bermuda.

Cooling of the tectonic plates, and the impact of the ridge flank system on the chemistry of the ocean, are fundamental global - scale processes.

One of these worlds, Europa, a 3.120 - km - wide moon orbiting Jupiter, exhibited a surface full of chaotic geologic formations that were unlike anything else seen in the Solar System, one that was crisscrossed by a vast network of red - colored ridges, spanning the entire globe.

The Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s confirmed the scientists» speculations that these ridges were fractures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system.

The large ridges or grooves seen in early images appear to fully encircle Vesta, and the northern hemisphere is believed to have some of the heaviest cratering of known objects in the Solar System (NASA news release and science news; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

Additional ridges or «tooth marks» on the sides of the swollen tongue are evidence of excess cold in the digestive system, which is often due to a lack of warming foods in the diet.

At San Antonio on the Albion island, ridged field systems bear evidence of ancient Mayan agricultural expertise and El Pozito, between Guinea Grass Village and August Pine Ridge, depicts a pre-classic (300 B.C.) building found beneath the plaza of a Classic (600 - 900 A.D.) Maya construction.

The Capricorn Caves are a unique cave system situated above ground level in a limestone ridge with easy access for visitors.

It is bounded on the west by the Drake Passage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge and island arc system supporting various islands.

Tradewind flow over the basin remains lighter than normal as low pressure systems moving eastward from the United States cause the ridge to the north to weaken.

Besides being home to the nation's new capital of Belmopan, the Cayo District, covering some two thousand square miles of verdant landscape, has some of the most scenic attractions in Belize: clear, meandering rivers, lush jungles, green hillsides, thundering waterfalls, huge cave systems, two of Belize's most important Mayan ruins, and a pine ridge forest just waiting for you to explore and experience.

Trends have been found in both hemispheric (the southern annular mode) and local (sub-tropical ridge) circulation features that may have played a role in reducing the number and impact of mid-latitude systems around SEA, and thus reducing rainfall.

A large fraction of the summer rainfall feeding the growing season in the Central U.S. Plains (and other heavily populated continental interior regions near mountain ridges) comes from long - lived, organized nocturnal mesoscale convective systems.

The anomalous ridge was investigated using reanalysis data and the Community Earth System Model (CESM).

For California, the upshot has been the increasing prevalence of a ridge and blocking high pressure system deflecting storms away from the California coast.

«What we find is that having really persistent ridging like this is unprecedented in our historic record,» said Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University.

... deep high - pressure systems, known as subtropical ridges, to form in these regions.

The accumulation of air as a result of the convergence in the upper troposphere causes deep high - pressure systems, known as subtropical ridges, to form in these regions.

«Normal» low pressure systems meeting a high pressure ridge simply stall out and remain in that area either until they dissipate or the high pressures moves!!!! What a hoot!

The paper clearly explains that, it's a matter of system response time: «Figure 1 shows that eight out of nine of these best - documented mid-ocean ridge magmatic events occurred during lows in the fortnightly tidal modulations (neap tides).

«In the case of Epsilon, just by chance, the system actually moved over a very narrow ridge of warmer sea last night and this morning which allowed it to build up to hurricane strength,» Feltgen said.

The article above says that a 40 ft roll of the ridge vent with PEX pipe embedded costs about $ 300, and that a kit for a full system (including the preheat tank) is about $ 3100.

The images show that the axial valley at 4,000 m water depth is blanketed by an extensive set of pyroclastic deposits, raising important questions regarding the accumulation and discharge of magmatic volatiles on such ridges and demonstrating that large - scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.

January 10, 2008 — Zigzagging some 60,000 kilometers across ocean floors, earth's system of mid-ocean ridges plays a pivotal role in many workings of the planet — from its plate - tectonic movements to heat flow from the interior, and the chemistry of rock, water and air...

The power button is centrally located just past the ports, and the rest of the system's top is simple, ridged plastic with a built - in handle that makes the system easy to grab for transport.

Responsible for examining and preserving evidence collected from crime scenes for friction ridge detail using defined analytical methods which may include the use of chemicals, fingerprint powders, alternative light sources, reflective ultra violet imaging systems, and computerized software

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