Sentences with phrase «seabeds around»

Tthe blue line relies mainly on cores from seabeds around the world.

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

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.

Large regions of the seabed around the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are undersampled for water depth, including most regions under ice shelves.

The deal sees Norton Rose advising the Crown Estate as the owner of the seabed around the UK on which the wind turbines will be developed.

Not exact matches

In Namibia, China and other spots around the world, researchers have collected rocks that were once ancient seabeds, and analysed the amounts of iron, molybdenum and other metals in them.

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.

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

In February, Australia — with U.N. approval — expanded its seabed borders along the Kerguelen Plateau around Heard and McDonald islands, pushing into the Antarctic Treaty jurisdiction.

Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep - sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world.

The Exeter and Greenpeace research team say there are «many questions and uncertainties» around seabed mining, including legal issues and the difficulties of predicting the scale and extent of impacts in advance, and of monitoring and regulating mining activity once it takes place in the deep sea.

Here and in many other places around the world, we are discovering the remains of human settlements on what is now the seabed.

A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.

Nurse sharks and stingrays laze around the seabed and angelfish will follow your bubbles.

There seem to be layers and layers of pristine yet fragile plates of coral, bedecking the Taveuni seabed, as it slopes from a sandy floor at around 30 metres up to the shallows of 8 to 10 metres.

The beach known as «Three Palms» is where numerous boat excursions and diving trips go to explore the seabed and the abundant sea life that teems around the coral reefs.

It's not just for floating around in the water, where there are dangers in the ocean, there are wrecks on the seabed.

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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:

July 19, 9:50 a.m. Updated Lest residents around the Gulf of Mexico rest too easy after the tenth effort by BP to seal its gushing seabed well seemed to work, the federal government Sunday night ordered the company to be prepared to open the valves on its well cap if reports of oil and gas seeping from the seabed nearby were confirmed.

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

The research vessel Helmer Hanssen spent 3 - weeks on an expedition to seabed methane seeps in the Arctic Ocean around Svalbard.

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.