Sentences with phrase «seabed off»

The sale was made to the British Crown Estate, which owns most of the seabed off Britain's shores, regularly leases out its land to wind farm projects but has never invested in the turbines.

I had a fascinating and fruitful chat with Yair Rosenthal of Rutgers and Braddock Linsley of Columbia University — two authors of an important new Science paper extracting 10,000 years of temperature changes in fairly deep Pacific Ocean waters from fossil plankton buried in the seabed off Indonesia.

Updated, 12:47 p.m. On another Arctic front, the notion that a huge outburst of heat - trapping methane is nigh from the seabed off Siberia, here's an update:

Since the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004, I've been reporting on the potent seismic activity along the Sunda Fault, a dangerous seam in the seabed off the coast of Sumatra.

It will be days before the full extent of destruction and death is tallied from the great 8.9 - magnitude earthquake that heaved the seabed off the coast of Japan's Honshu Island northeast of Tokyo and generated a devastating tsunami.

A new study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

The two mushroom - shaped species of Dendrogramma were dragged up from the seabed off south - east Australia in 1986 by Jean Just of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, and his colleagues.

By NEIL HARRIS Imagine yourself exploring the seabed off the Galapagos Islands, gliding through the flora and fauna in a submersible craft.

For their study, the researchers visited natural leaks of CO2 in the sandy seabed off the coast of Sicily.

John Harvey mentions tomato seeds on the seabed off Liverpool (30 August, p 30).

A robotic submarine is scouring the seabed off Perth, Australia, but after covering 314 square kilometres, there is still no sign of the jet.

A major release of methane trapped in the frozen seabed off Russia could accelerate global warming and cause $ 60 trillion in damage, almost the size of world GDP, it said.

A recent study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

Not exact matches

The mat had previously covered the seabed like a coating of plastic wrap, leaving the underlying sediments largely anoxic and off limits to animals.

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.

, 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.

This 15 - metre - deep salt lake is caused by methane, given off by rotting matter on the seabed.

Researchers have found apparent remnants of an extraterrestrial impact some 55 million years ago, in cores from three locations in southern New Jersey, and in a deep - seabed core off Bermuda.

For over 400 years, she was buried in clay on the seabed at a depth of 14 metres off the south coast of England, until marine archaeologists salvaged her in 1982.

It is harvested from the seabed's off Ireland's southwest coast, which are some of the purest and cleanest waters across the globe.

This Sanur dive site is situated in the channel and has coral reef running along the edge of the channel which slopes off into a large sandy seabed.

The seabed is covered in rocky formations such as pinnacles, big drop off's, caves and tunnels.

The «top kill» procedure for choking off the gushing seabed well in the Gulf of Mexico was not quite the last best chance, but close.

Here's an excerpt from the news release on the fascinating work examining the response of certain worm species when transplanted in and around the 1,850 - year - old seabed CO2 vent off Naples:

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.

As a kid paddling around in a dinghy, I could «feel» the otherwise invisible seabed by bouncing my weighted hand line off the bottom.

We focused initially on the enormous seabed earthquake off Japan and the resulting tsunami and then on the challenges facing journalists and activists trying to communicate about human - driven climate change in ways that hew to the science but also gain traction (a very tough challenge; we have very different views).

Otherwise, the process could lead to new leaks beneath the seabed, just as turning off the nozzle on a damaged garden hose causes leaks to spring elsewhere.

Fresh headlines followed publication of «Ebullition and storm - induced methane release from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf,» a new Nature Geoscience paper from Natalia Shakhova, Igor Semiletov and the rest of a team tracking emissions of this important greenhouse gas from the seabed and shallow waters off Siberia.

An even more worrying potential source of greenhouse gases is the methane in the seabed of the Arctic Ocean, notably off the coast of Siberia.

«Previous observations have pointed to large methane plumes being released from the seabed in the relatively shallow sea off the northern coast of Siberia, but the latest findings were made far away from land in the deep, open ocean where the surface is usually capped by ice.»

Waters within a 20 - kilometer zone are still off - limits, and high levels of contamination have been found in seabed sediment and fish tested in the area.

Buried deep in seabed sediments off east Africa, scientists have uncovered a 24 - million - year record of vegetation trends in the region where humans evolved.

Made up of five 6MW Siemens Gamesa turbines topping 75 - metre - long steel spar - buoy foundations moored to the seabed in 100 metres of water, the project — formerly known as Buchan Deep — will produce enough power for some 20,000 households from its site 24 km off Peterhead.