Sentences with phrase «seafloor topography»
"Seafloor topography" refers to the shape or contours of the ocean floor, including mountains, valleys, and plains underwater. Full definition
On bathymetric maps of seafloor topography, they look like grooves on a record.
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Colorful lines and patterns overwhelm the canvases like psychedelic sea - scapes (appropriate, given that they are inspired by seafloor topography).
After puzzling it over and practically wallpapering his house with seafloor topography and magnetic field maps, in 1993 Klimley hypothesized that somehow their oblong - shaped heads can sense tiny changes in the magnetic lines created by volcanic lava flows.
High - resolution seafloor topography of the Havre caldera mapped by the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry shows the new 2012 erupted lavas in red.
This becomes evident by pairing seafloor topography and tectonic data with the recently published OCO2 - results.
Simulations suggest that seafloor topography enhances turbulent mixing and energy dissipation in the ocean interior.
By combining archaeological studies on remote islands with computer simulations of founding populations and detailed examinations of seafloor topography and ancient sea level, they are amassing crucial new data on voyages from northeast Asia to the Americas 15,000 years ago, from Japan to the remote island of Okinawa 30,000 years ago, and from Southeast Asia to Australia 50,000 years ago.
The researchers found that bottom currents are strongly influenced by seafloor topography, especially where strong flow encounters steep inclines.
Some scientists plan to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf, others will map the region's seafloor topography and still others want to study the newly exposed ecosystem that's been hidden from the sun for up to 120,000 years (SN Online: 10/13/17).
But Jean - Arthur Olive, a geodynamicist at Columbia University and lead author of the new paper, doubted that seafloor topography would be sensitive enough to record such relatively rapid changes in magma supply.
In an earlier study, the team found that the neighboring Filchner - Ronne and Ross ice shelves would not collapse on their own; the seafloor topography would keep them anchored in place and prevent the destabilizing inward rush of seawater.