Sentences with phrase «seafloor between»

He also examined studies of ancient sea levels and a detailed bathymetric map showing the depth of the seafloor between the islands of Okinawa and Japan.

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«We saw a connection between organisms that live almost all of their lives in the water column and those that live on the seafloor,» Juniper says.

This band of malleable ice (center) may have flowed upward between two ancient terrains on Jupiter's moon Ganymede in a process similar to seafloor spreading on Earth.

The evidence comes from seafloor spreading centers: sites throughout the ocean where plates of ocean crust move apart and magma erupts in between, building new crust onto the plates» trailing edges.

Potential links between the distribution of this marine snow, seafloor terrain and ecology have been difficult to resolve.

A side - roll is defined as a roll of between 45 and 135 degrees from a normal orientation along the seafloor — the most common version uses a 90 degree roll with a downward head pitch of about 30 degrees, which matches favorably with earlier speculative sketches of bottom feeding.

GEOMAR researchers find links between sedimentation and methane seeps on the seafloor off the coast of Norway.»

In the video, Ash describes her work to understand the balance between the massive amount of methane, a greenhouse gas, under the Antarctic seafloor and the microbes that consume it and keep it from escaping to the atmosphere, as well as the microbes» susceptibility to climate change.

However, if degassing is more dependent on seafloor pressure and regassing mainly dependent on mantle temperature, the degassing rate is relatively large at late times and a steady - state between degassing and regassing is reached with a substantial surface water fraction.

«We hope that Nereus will help scientists investigate some of the «big questions» of our time — questions of vital societal importance such the relation between seafloor dynamics and global climate change,» said Whitcomb.

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As such, there is a diffusion gradient of dissolved CH4 between the top of gas hydrate and the seafloor.

The persistent gap between the company's public statements on the flow of oil and its internal estimates illustrates the value of having independent assessments — and independent eyeballs on the seafloor, perhaps.

An educated guess would be that the leak originated under water, potentially from the pipeline leading from the Douglas Complex, from the riser pipe from the seafloor to the OSI, or from the seafloor junction between the two.

Walrus depend on sea ice as a platform for giving birth, nursing, and resting between dives to the seafloor, where they feed.46 In recent years, when summer sea ice in the Chukchi Sea retreated over waters that were too deep for walrus to feed, 47,48 large numbers of walrus abandoned the ice and came ashore.

Additionally, there is a relation between ocean basin volume and seafloor speading rates, the higher the spreading rate the higher sea level is for a given climate / ocean temperature.

I'm not sure we know much about the significance of effects of differences in salinity and seafloor spreading between the two periods, nor in the effects of the positions of the continents during the two periods.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Quote by Andrew Dodds / Additionally, there is a relation between ocean basin volume and seafloor speading rates, the higher the spreading rate the higher sea level is for a given climate / ocean temperature.