Sentences with phrase «surrounding seafloor»

They are formed when carbonate bedrock drops deeper than the surrounding seafloor.

It stuck up higher than the surrounding seafloor, and a displaying octopus would sometimes climb up on top of it to perform the «stand tall» posture.

The rest spewed from the chimney tops and fell out onto the surrounding seafloor.

Clams have turned up in the sunless, high - pressure depths surrounding seafloor vents.

A new map of the surrounding seafloor helps explain why: Many of the fastest - melting glaciers sit atop deep fjords that allow Atlantic Ocean water to melt them from below.

Not exact matches

The seafloor animals of the Southern Ocean shelf have long been isolated by the deep ocean surrounding Antarctica and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, with little scope for southward migration.

At that point it is about 2 degrees warmer than the water at the seafloor and three - tenths of a degree warmer than the water surrounding the plume.

In the big map you can see the surrounding geology of the seafloor and then this little tiny dot in the middle — that's Titanic.

After multiple dives, the research team made two significant discoveries — hundreds of skate egg cases on the seafloor, and in bundles on the rocks surrounding a catshark nursery area.

Although the evidence was subsequently contested, some single - celled microbial life lacking a nucleus that segregates their internal DNA or RNA («prokaryotes») from the surrounding cytoplasm may have flourished in darkness within cracks in Earth's seafloor crust and around deep, warm or boiling hot ocean springs (hydrothermal or volcanic vents, such as at Lost City or at black smokers) without a need for light or free oxygen in the oceans or atmosphere.

Some 14 were situated at the transition depth, where there are more plumes per unit area than on surrounding areas of the seafloor.