Sentences with phrase «subsurface layers»
Subsurface layers refer to the areas beneath the surface of something, such as soil or water. It means the deeper parts or underground sections that are not visible from the outside. Full definition
Conversely, if the seafloor in front of a glacier is deep, the ice spills into the warm subsurface layer of saltwater and may melt relatively rapidly.
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He said, «That no - till subsurface layer is often losing more soil organic carbon stock over time than is gained in the surface layer.»
Furthermore, DIC allowed the Lawrence Livermore team to evaluate the coupled effects of laser power and speed, and to observe a potentially beneficial effect of subsurface layer heating on residual stress development.
The most popular explanations today are that it was either born as an inflating half dome of magma squeezed in between subsurface layers of rock or within a conduit deep inside a volcano.
Some researchers think that the answer is cryovolcanism, where subsurface layers of mixed ice and minerals percolate slowly to the surface through cracks and fractures, or more swiftly following an impact.
There are fears that Arctic warming will worsen wildfires that, in turn, burn through subsurface layers of soil and hasten the thawing of permafrost beneath.
Permafrost — a vast, frozen subsurface layer of soil — covers nearly a quarter of the land in the northern hemisphere.
Fissures and fractures around Tombaugh Regio and other parts of the planet suggested a subsurface layer of watery slush might be slowly solidifying, breaking up the surface as it expands like ice cubes in a freezer — but other, drier possibilities could also explain such cracks.
They think the lower zones are wetlands fed by a subsurface layer of liquid methane and ethane.
They often perform seismic studies, for example, which involve bouncing energy waves off buried layers of rock, to search for oil and gas or to understand the structure of the subsurface layers.
The spots also suggest that Ceres has a subsurface layer of briny ice.
«The global nature of Ceres» bright spots suggests that this world has a subsurface layer that contains briny water - ice,» Nathues said.
«The global nature of Ceres» bright spots suggests that this world has a subsurface layer that contains briny water - ice,» said Andreas Nathues at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.
This means that an increase in temperature and the associated reorganization in ocean circulation, for instance, had less of an effect on the marine ecosystem's ability to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in the subsurface layers of the ocean.
If the minerals are chlorides, then a low temperature brine can keep the subsurface layer mobile.
«People had considered whether you could get a subsurface layer of water somewhere on Pluto» states New Horizons co-investigator Richard Binzel, professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at MIT.
If that is the case, then Pluto may have a subsurface layer of liquid.
Regarding your discussion of acidification of the oceans, that line of reasoning is somewhat stretched, because you are looking at the change in pH of the surface layer, which overtime mixes with the subsurface layer.