Sentences with phrase «sea floor»

In this beach, you are allowed to enjoy the beauty of sea floor through diving.

However, thousands of dead marine animals were pulled from the oil - stained waters and evidence has been found of oil killing coral reefs and coating parts of the deep sea floor.

Newly formed sea floor becomes part of that crust.

Last year's sea ice retreat allowed scientists to map big potential sea floor claims.

Figure 3: Environmental reconstructions of sea floor oxygen loss through an event of global - scale climate warming.

2) The paper I referenced states that the proxy magnetic field intensity derived from sea floor sediment data does not match obital frequencies however other papers state that it does.

From this they calculated the weight of fish supported per square metre of sea floor in each habitat.

This is a very shallow reef network with a sandy sea floor at around 14m with the reef rising to a couple of metres below the surface.

The fins of sharks and the movement of kelp along sea floors has inspired new designs for underwater turbines that are both more efficient and less likely to break.

Rather, they show the uplifting of sea floor by plate tektonics over millions of years.

This enteropneust, or «acorn,» worm feeds on sea floor sediment leaving behind curling, wavy, tracks.

Permafrost Permafrost Holds Twice as Much GHGs as Previously Thought: Over 1500 Billion Tons of CO2 and Methane Canada's Permafrost Has Moved 80 Miles North in Past 50 Years Methane More Methane Discovered Bubbling From Arctic Sea Floor - 1000 Times Background Levels in Places Major Source of Atmospheric Methane Identified Near Arctic Lakes

Earlier this year, a pair of papers suggested that long - term cycles of glaciation and melting trigger pulses of lava that harden into sea floor hills.

The Black Sea is connected to the Mediterranean through the Bosporus, but this is in effect a natural canal cut through continental rock some 7,000 years ago, rather than a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.

The SS Yongala — an underwater oasis on the sandy sea floor surrounded by stunning marine life, just 12 nautical miles off Alva Beach, is considered one of the best dive sites in the world.

Compared to the surrounding sea floor, upon which organic matter rains from above, hydrothermal vents boast a community of organisms that is 10,000 to 100,000 times denser.

Three basic forces are believed to drive oceanic plate movement: plates are «pushed» away from mid-ocean ridges as new sea floor forms; plates are «pulled» as the oldest parts of the plate dive back into the earth at subduction zones; and convection within the asthenosphere helps ferry the plates along.

The team wanted to know how often trawlers can rake over a section of muddy sea floor before habitats can no longer recover.

Gene Patey captured this jarring image of a piece of the towering iceberg looming over the idyllic - looking hamlet of Goose Cove, although NASA's Earth Observatory predicted that the ice island would most likely get grounded on the shallow sea floor before it could strike land.

The scientists suspect that it was molten carbonate, carried to these great depths in sinking slabs of ancient sea floor.

An example was the clathrate ices, frozen in layers spread through sea floor muds.

Some researchers had suggested that these hills also record the influence of climate cycles on sea floor eruptions — but a new study finds this tectonically unlikely.

The candidates for the carbon injected into the climate system during those warmings are methane hydrates on continental shelves destabilized by sea floor warming [211] and carbon released from frozen soils [212].

The impact of trawling on muddy sea floors is poorly understood, and Gleason and her colleagues hope to change that.

The Arctic sea floor contains a rich, decayed layer of vegetation from earlier eras when the continental shelf was not underwater.

The scythe - shaped cleft in the western Pacific sea floor, 2550 kilometers long, plunges nearly 11 kilometers, deeper than any other place in the oceans.

The torpedo - shaped robot, nicknamed Gudgeon after a Second World War submarine, spent the first month of the field campaign surveying the entire sea floor north of Crete's main harbour, Heraklion, for any lumps and bumps that might signal an ancient wreck.

When the Red Sea was allegedly parted, are we to believe that the Israelis were able to swiftly run across the just - exposed sea floor?

Instead, the alignment of the crystals is strongest near the top of the lithosphere where new sea floor forms, weakest near the base of the plate, and then peaks in strength again about 250 kilometers below the surface, deep in the asthenosphere.

Though it is hard to imagine now, the parched peaks we are clambering over were once flat sea floor.

Scientists strongly suspect that the algae, Caulerpa taxifolia, is the same fast - growing, non-native clone that has swept over the northwestern Mediterranean sea floor in the past decade with devastating ecological consequences.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

Then the team's computer simulations showed that eddies could trigger changes in sea floor currents matching the patterns measured by the instruments, with the best correlation occurring when the effects on deep - sea currents happened 8 days after the eddy passed overhead.

She and her colleagues created a model that accurately (to 97 %) replicates known historic solar activity (from ice cores, tree ring data, deep sea floor cores, etc.).

In words of Andy from Oceano Surf School «Conil is a really good destination because in the very short space there are different beaches with different sea floors and different orientation.

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Researchers suspect that the animal used its sensitive lower jaw, combined with echolocation, to skim for prey along the dark sea floor.