Sentences with phrase «seafloor sediment representing»

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.

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Data on bathymetry, demersal fish, sponges and sediments, and oceanographic data, were used to identify a suite of unique seafloor bioregions comprising 41 provinces, three depth - related biomes on the continental slope, and geomorphic units that represent clusters of geomorphic features around the EEZ.