Sentences with phrase «sea floor eruptions»
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.
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Measurements of vent water taken from the time of a sea floor eruption indicate a change in the mineral composition being emitted.
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Eruptions of lava on the sea floor as it widens appear to form deep cracks into which seawater rushes.
Other sources cite significant volcanic eruptions on the sea floor below the North Pole (erupted in the last 15 years).
Episodic and explosive escapes of gaseous methane from the sediment column have been documented by kilometer - scale «wipeout zones» in seismic images (Riedel et al., 2002), and pockmarks on the sea floor, called eruption craters (Hill et al., 2004).
«Sonar surveys of the ocean floor in the North Sea (between Britain and continental Europe) have revealed large quantities of methane hydrates and eruption sites,» May and Monaghan wrote in their report, published in the American Journal of Physics.