Sentences with phrase «sea floor north»
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.
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On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.
The resulting cascade rippled through the North Pacific, causing an upsurge in sea urchin numbers and kelp consumption and denuding the ocean floor.
The Caribbean Plate, he noted, is «just sort of sitting there while the North American and South American plates move» west (due to sea floor spreading in the Atlantic).
Statoil, the Norwegian national oil company, extracts carbon dioxide from natural gas and pumps 2,800 tons of it every day 3,000 feet below the North Sea floor, trapping it in sandstone.
Canada's mapping project has now been running for 10 years, and Verhoef's group has published numerous papers on the geological features of the Arctic sea floor, but the last piece of the puzzle, a 2000 kilometer - long extension of the Lomonosov Ridge called the Alpha Ridge that runs north of the Yukon coast, remains virtually unexplored by anyone prior to the 6 - week cruise that just launched.
At threshold sedimentation rates of 1 millimeter per 1000 years, the low rates of microbial community metabolism in the North Pacific Gyre allow sediments to remain oxygenated tens of meters below the sea floor.
The bubble streams showed up on sonar scans of the sea floor taken between September 2011 and August 2013 during oceanographic expeditions ranging from Cape Hatteras in North Carolina to Georges Bank off Cape Cod.
They are hoping the seismic data they collect between now and mid-September will support the claim of Denmark and Greenland to 150,000 square kilometres of extra territory extending north from Greenland into the oil and gas - rich Arctic sea floor.
Villa 16 is located on the third floor north corner from which you can enjoy a spectacular view of the crystal blue waters of the Caribbean sea.
Step into this fourth - floor North Tower residence and the views of palm - filled tropical gardens, shimmering pool waters and the azure seas beyond Seven Mile Beach will simply take your breath away.
Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.
Just moments from the sands of Natai Beach — just half an hour's drive north of Phuket International Airport — lies Villa Roxo, a sleek four - bedroom designer escape with panoramic sea views from the top two of its three floors.
Days 9 & 10 Includes two full - day island visits to North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor or Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater.
Day 6 Full - day island visit to either North Seymour, a small flat island surrounded by low cliffs, South Plaza, an uplifted slab of sea floor, Bartolomé, characterised by a high volcanic crater or Santa Fe, one of the oldest islands of the archipelago.
Roca Redonda, Isabela Island — Off the north coast of Isabela, this dive site is the tip of an underwater volcano that rises from the sea floor and emerges as an island.
Yesterday, the Commerce Department and University of New Hampshire released the details of last summer's sonar survey of the sea floor off the Alaskan coast, which was able to push nearly 200 miles farther out toward the North Pole than it had in previous years because of the extraordinary ice retreat of 2007.
For quite interesting reasons, the sea - floor in shallow waters north of Siberia is frozen.
Other sources cite significant volcanic eruptions on the sea floor below the North Pole (erupted in the last 15 years).
«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.