Sentences with phrase «sea sediments around»

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That fits with analysis of sea - floor sediments, which suggests that a dead zone of around 600 square kilometres formed here about 40,000 years ago.

This research evolved into the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the gloSea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the glosea - floor sediment around the globe.

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

By studying sediment cores from the deep Pacific near the Philippines, paleoclimatologist Lowell Stott of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his colleagues revealed that the temperatures of the deepest seas rose by around 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) at least 1,000 years before sea - surface temperatures.

As the Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain fell that turned to steam upon hitting the still hot surface, then superheated water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.

New Zealand coastal geomorphologist Paul Kench, of the University of Auckland's School of Environment, and colleagues in Australia and Fiji,... found that reef islands change shape and move around in response to shifting sediments, and that many of them are growing in size, not shrinking, as sea level inches upward.

Given that calving Patagonia glaciers were far more sensitive to climate fluctuations than western Antarctica, and given the likelihood that paleo sea - ice extent around Antarctica deflected iceberg drift from present pathways, it would be helpful to know how they confirmed the respective continental sources of any dated sediments.

In the 1970s, the first comprehensive analysis of oxygen isotopes in sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch.