Sentences with phrase «seabed out»

In addition to a unique and diverse property portfolio, encompassing urban and rural estates, the marine interests of The Crown Estate include almost the entire UK territorial seabed out to 12 nautical miles and around 55 per cent of the UK's coastal foreshore.

Leases enabling developers to begin construction will only be granted by The Crown Estate — which owns almost all of the seabed out to 12 nautical miles, and development rights out to 200 nautical miles — once statutory consents and permissions are obtained.

And then — still at sea — ships could spread that vital trace element iron across the ocean surfaces and give plankton a chance to bloom, grow, die and take all that carbon down to the seabed out of harm's way.

Not exact matches

To reach the oil, it has had to drill horizontally up to 8 miles out below the seabed, setting one world record after another for the longest wells ever drilled.

Sander Houben of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues studied fossilised dinoflagellates — a type of plankton — in sediment cores from the Antarctic seabed to find out how these changes affected marine life.

Hydrothermal vents pulse hot water out of the seabed and into the ocean.

When CO2 is injected into the seabed, sometimes we need to remove the water being pressed out of the rocks through a new well,» say Landrø and Torsæter.

The ocean water draws minerals and metals out of Earth's crust and carries these back up to the seabed.

Although Australia says that mineral and petroleum exploration is out of the question, some fear that this move could open the door to trawling on the seabed and bioprospecting in the region.

Using multibeam sonar, a recent expedition found that the foot of the slope north of Alaska lies much farther out than expected, potentially entitling the United States to new resource rights over hundreds of square miles of seabed.

To escape from these seabed vents, LUCA had to adapt its membrane to pump protons out of the cell, in order for them to flow back in again to help drive ATP production.

No nation is likely to start investing in expensive resource exploration and extraction if it could be evicted by a neighboring country's extended seabed claim under UNCLOS, so the outer shelves will not see development for another 30 years or so, Baker points out.

Warming water may also be unlocking ice from the seabed, removing the buttresses that stop inland ice sliding out to sea, says Rignot.

The procedure is intended to stem the flow of oil and gas and ultimately kill the well by injecting heavy drilling fluids through the blow out preventer on the seabed down into the well.

To find out how such a large slip — greater than 50 metres in places — happened, seismologists on board Japan's deep - sea research vessel Chikyu drilled boreholes nearly 850 metres deep into the seabed around the plate boundary that ruptured in 2011.

Their analysis, published this week in Marine and Petroleum Geology, revealed that the structures are likely a result of their location: directly above a subsurface fault still hidden by the seabed, where methane oozes out of Earth's crust in various ways.

But the most highly anticipated territorial confrontation — determining control of the Arctic Ocean's seabed — won't play out until a few years from now.

To remedy this, researchers have developed models that point out the worst patches of the seabed.

Because Atlantis Bank has been drilled before, and its condition is known, fairly swift progress is expected on this first outing, with the hole being opened to a depth of perhaps 1.3 km below the seabed.

These simple action and clapping rhymes will enhance any teaching about the seaside, shells, the seabed, water, treasure, pirates, summer, sounds or colours, while also stretching imagination, drawing out passive vocabulary, building verbal communication skills and developing a sense of rhythm and rhyme.

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.

I could see all the way to its sandy seabed and even make out the schools of tiny fish and deep drifting weed.

The reef is on the edge of the continental shelf and the seabed surrounding the reef slopes out to a depth of 25 to 30m.

The seabed slopes very gently down from the beach, so you can wade very far out without the water even coming to your knees!

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The rainforest, seabed, cavern and beach environments wouldn't look out of place in a non-Lego game.

The Arctic seabed methane rate of release, on the other hand, is likely to increase, as you point out.

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.

Obama administration officials faced growing challenges over the unabated oil gusher on the Gulf of Mexico seabed on Tuesday as analysis of ocean currents appeared to raise the odds that Florida reefs and beaches could be tainted before the month is out.

(There is also the argument from the practical: I suspect that if you could put a straw into the seabed and suck out enough free methane to change the world, the oil companies would have figured it out by now...)

That water could warm up during the summer months because the area is ice - free now already, and this will give you positive temperatures on the seabed which will start to thaw out the seabed permafrost which has been sitting there frozen since the last Ice Age.

Just days ago I wrote here of another recent technical folly suffered by the North Sea Riffgat wind park, where its power transmission underwater cable worked its way out of the seabed to become exposed and thus at risk of becoming ensnarled with anchors or fishing nets.

Under the Law of the Sea, countries can only own the seabed beyond their Exclusive Economic Zones (200 nautical miles out) if it's part of their continental shelf.

The oil and gas that it sucks up out of the seabed gets stripped of all its carbon dioxide before being piped ashore.

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.

Australian company, AquaGen Technologies has come up with a SurgeDriv system, which has a series of floats linked with tension cabling via the seabed and then to a generator on a platform above the sea surface, thus keeping as much of the infrastructure out of the water as possible.

Unfortunately, we keep doing everything we can to postpone that hangover, thanks to hair - of - the - dog innovations like fracking and arctic drilling aimed at squeezing those last bits of hydrocarbons out of rocks and seabeds.

For all the technological wizardry that has been suggested — from injecting carbon dioxide into deep seabeds to creating a sunshade by shooting sulfur out of man - made volcanoes — there is a simple, obvious, and immediately available solution: We can put the carbon back to work making food to nourish our growing population.