Sentences with phrase «seabed as»

Large amounts of methane are produced in anaerobic conditions by bacterial activity in the sediments below the seabed as well as by chemical transformation of organic matter at greater burial depths.

Methane can also be stored in the seabed as methane gas or methane hydrates and then released as subsea permafrost thaws.

The Healy, a younger, larger, but less sturdy ice - breaking ship, just headed out on a surveying cruise charting new stretches of the Chukchi Cap, an extension of the continental slope off Alaska that could — if the Senate ever approves the Law of the Sea Treaty — add a big swath of Arctic Ocean seabed as a potential economic resource.

At 40m deep, you will see thousands of nudibranchs scattered all over the seabed as far as you can see; this, together with large schools of fish creating magnificent patterns, makes for an incredible diving experience.

in the sediments below the seabed as well as by chemical transformation of organic matter at greater burial depths.

Not exact matches

I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.

The EEZ Act was enacted in 2013 to provide a regulatory framework to manage the environmental effects of offshore resource development such as oil exploration and seabed mining.

Route 11 Potato Chips gains fans because of the high - quality ingredients it sources for its kettle - style chips, such as unrefined sea salt from an ancient seabed in Utah.

Generally, you need approval from the ISA for commercial operations affecting the seabed (with a few exceptions such as the sea cables that I already mentioned, and pipelines, too).

It has been so well preserved by the sandy seabed that weevils sit in the grain stores, human skeletons lie undisturbed in their graves, and a mysterious stone circle still stands as it was first erected.

In fact, as far back as the 1970s scientists found layers of salt several hundred metres thick on the seabed.

Valentine says they formed as sticky hydrocarbons seeped from the seabed around 40,000 years ago.

That article about «seabed scars» quoted European officials as saying it is likely that some CO2 would leak eventually.

As for the increase in phosphorus content, it was caused by the phosphorus that in the summer of 2014 flowed in from the deep waters in the north of the Baltic Sea main basin and the phosphorus that was released from the Gulf of Finland's own seabed in the poor oxygen conditions and mixed with the surface layer during last winter.

The wood - paneled walls around Koblick's office are filled with memorabilia that attest to his years as an undersea pioneer and a genuine player in a decades - long quest to turn ordinary divers into «aquanauts,» the name applied to those equipped to live on the seabed, much as crews launched into space get to be called astronauts.

There are projects in place to mitigate these effects, such as planting vegetation in the exposed seabed to prevent desertification.

As mining companies prepare to exploit the copper and gold in the seabed, we explore the fate of the unique ecosystems around tectonic boundaries

Notothenia coriiceps, informally known as Antarctic cod, cuts its metabolism by two - thirds and burrows under the seabed for days at a time during dark Antarctic winters.

McCain is in favor of drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf federally controlled submerged land off all U.S. coasts (as opposed to state - controlled seabed)-- in order to lessen American dependence on foreign oil and lower gas prices.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

In other countries, such as the USA, strategically placed protected areas have proved successful in protecting vulnerable areas of seabed while boosting the breeding and growth rates of scallops.

One possible measure against steadily increasing greenhouse gases is known as CCS (carbon capture and storage): Here, the carbon dioxide is captured, preferably directly at the power plant, and subsequently stored deep in the ground or beneath the seabed.

The usual method, known as bottom trawling, is to drag a large cone - shaped net, weighted with 15 tons of gear, across the seabed.

And yet this may be just the beginning with emerging activities such as mining the seabed for mineral and biological resources rising high on international political agendas (2).

No bigger than grains of salt, they accumulate on the seabed and wash up as sand, often turning beaches gleaming white.

Thousands of feet below the ocean's surface lies a hidden world of undiscovered species and unique seabed habitats — as well as a vast untapped store of natural resources including valuable metals and rare - earth minerals.

The shallowness of the earthquake — which was only about 34 kilometres below the seabed — was as important as its severity in triggering the tsunamis.

The key to the invention is the creation of an empty chamber on the seabed into which water can flow, generating electrical power as it passes through turbines.

Alternatively, by allowing it to feed on algae as well as rubbish on the seabed, it could be a way to take in a range of nutrients.

, sometimes endearingly referred to as «zombie worm,» was devouring the bones of a decaying whale when it was discovered off the California coast on the Monterey Bay seabed.

«As governments prepare to set the rules and the first companies gear up to mine, now is the time to ask whether we just have to accept seabed mining, or should instead decide that the potential damage is just so great that we really need to find less destructive alternatives.»

Based on radiometric dating and geochemical isotope analysis, Czaja characterizes his fossils as having formed in this early Vaalbara supercontinent in an ancient deep seabed containing sulfate from continental rock.

Now veined octopuses, Amphioctopus marginatus, have been filmed picking up coconut halves from the seabed to use as hiding places when they feel threatened.

And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 2013.

Given that some microbes can withstand temperatures as high as 122 °C and pressures about 3000 times higher than at Earth's surface, Plümper calculates that life could survive up to 10 kilometres beneath the seabed.

The researchers based their findings on the interaction of species in a community of invertebrates (such as clams, shrimps and worms) obtained from marine seabed samples collected in Galway Bay, Ireland.

It occurs in seabed layers at sites (such as the Barents Sea) that are rich in methane.

As domes of frozen methane destabilized within this seabed some 12,000 years ago, they blasted open the seafloor.

In Antarctica, even though as a whole it's slightly gaining in sea ice cover, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

Underwater permafrost acts as a lid to restrain methane stored in the seabed.

Corals and tiny fossilised marine organisms buried in the seabed act as natural recorders of past ocean temperatures.

Recent methane measurements at Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal and Tae - ahn Peninsula, Republic of Korea (See http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/iadv/index.php) in the context of outlier data points over the last decade at sites such as Storhofdi, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and reports of methane releases from the Arctic seabed, tell us that at current levels of AGW, the Earth's sea - floor methane systems are not stable.

Given that the seismic signature of this material is essentially the same as crustal igneous rocks, there is no way of telling - other than to drill and sample everything between the seabed and the top few hundred metres of unadulterated mantle.

Resulting in the formation of what is known as the «Pacific Ring of Fire,» this major geological shift buckled the seabed of the sunken continent.

Habitat destruction can degrade aquatic ecosystems, as seabed habitats provide shelter and food for a variety of species.

It's from the Ancient Zechstein seabed (which the manufacturers love to mention, to add mystique) which my product comes from as well and it's 100 % pure.

Recently (2010) information has been released about underwater and under seabed bases in the area of Puerto Rico that are known as Seagates.

Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Acids and Bases: Buffers Recently (2010) information has been released about underwater and under seabed bases in the area of Puerto Rico that are known as Seagates.

Over the last two years, as I have tried to tease out the truths from the untruths in that series of events that seeped out through Elizabeth's death, like lava moving upwards and outwards through salt water from a tear in the seabed, I have had to be you several times, Cameron Brown, in order to claw myself towards some kind of coherence.