Sentences with phrase «seafloor sediment cores»

Not exact matches

The foundation of the research involved tracking the changes in ocean circulation in new detail by studying three sediment cores extracted from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 during a scientific cruise.

In the climate research community, ice cores are generally considered the gold standard, because their layers are highly consistent, unlike sediment layers from the seafloor, which are frequently marred by tectonic shifts, currents or marine organisms.

In addition to a marine biologist's typical tools — water samplers to measure salinity and temperature, plankton nets — the team's toolbox will hold cameras, coring systems to collect seafloor sediment, and hydroacoustic equipment to map the topography of the now - exposed seabed.

Dr. Edwards took deep sediment core samples to further understand the geology of the region including the unusual seafloor mound where these samples were collected.

Scripps scientists Lisa Levin and Carlos Neira preparing a sediment coring instrument for deployment on the seafloor.

It discusses the clay mineral composition of sediment samples taken from the seafloor surface and marine cores in order to decipher spatial and temporal changes in the sediment provenance.

My lab work is focused on analyzing sediment cores and interpreting seismic - reflection and sidescan seafloor images.

The new core samples were extracted from roughly 506 to 1,335 meters below the seafloor, and Lowery and his colleagues focused on sediment collected from roughly 617 meters below the seafloor, corresponding to material laid down immediately after the asteroid impact.

The researchers studied cores of seafloor sediment representing 500,000 years of deposition, spanning about 6,000 miles of the Pacific equator, from near Papua New Guinea to near Ecuador's Galapagos Islands — nearly a quarter of the globe's girth.