Sentences with phrase «than sea floor»

After all, plate tectonics was more than a half - century in the making, and those revolutionaries had to look little deeper than the sea floor.

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Finally Mr Wenger has 300 talent scouts scouring the globe, the sea floor and every planet in the milky way for 1 - 2 players who are as good as Messi Ronaldo and Naymar but who cost less than 5 mill and who will not disrupt cohesion.

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

The team found that species of foraminifera living on the sea floor around the time of the ice age contained more carbon than those that floated at the surface (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1188605).

In places where sea - floor oxygen levels are a bit higher — about 0.5 — 3 % of concentrations at the sea surface — animals are more abundant but their food webs remain limited: the animals still feed on microbes rather than on each other.

The scythe - shaped cleft in the western Pacific sea floor, 2550 kilometers long, plunges nearly 11 kilometers, deeper than any other place in the oceans.

However unstable these domes on the Arctic Ocean floor may be, they are still more stable than the pingos found in sub - sea permafrost in Canadian and Russian Arctic.

During its fruitful 16 - year career the autonomous bot made more than 200 deep dives, navigating the treacherous terrain of the sea floor and mapping underwater mountain chains with little input from above.

Ramariopsis kunzei looks more like a beautiful white coral living under the sea than a mushroom living on the floor of a tropical forest.

The brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, a relative of starfish, can scan the sea floor, thanks to light - sensitive cells scattered across its skin, rather than by using eye - like structures, a study suggests.

The biggest changes were seen in West Antarctica, where more than a fifth of the ice sheet has retreated across the sea floor faster than the pace of deglaciation.

Hayes and his team measured the elevation of lakes filled with liquid as well as those that are now dry, and found that lakes exist hundreds of meters above sea level, and that within a watershed, the floors of the empty lakes are all at higher elevations than the filled lakes in their vicinity.

Most sea squirts are little more than rubbery blobs that stick to shells and rocks on the sea floor.

City - sized maps of terrain and life on the sea - floor have revealed that drifts of «marine snow» on submarine hillsides act as a source of food to fuel a higher biomass of marine life on the hills than on the flatter plains surrounding hills.

Scientists compared the maps to modern charts, finding that more than half of the historical reefs have been replaced by seagrass beds or bare sea floor.

Less than a millimetre across even with its spines, the juvenile form shown here has recently metamorphosed from the free - swimming larval stage and is beginning its new life on the sea floor, consuming organic material it scrapes from the surface of sand grains.

Although less than 1 % of the sea floor where hydrothermal vents are suspected has been investigated, hundreds of hydrothermal vent fields have been identified around the globe in the past couple decades.

Kelp is a type of large seaweed that are famous for growing from the sea floor to the surface, seeking sunlight and can grow at amazingly fast rates, sometimes more than half a meter a day!

The marine biologists and engineers who, more than 60 years later, traverse the sea floor off Oahu make a startling discovery comparable to that of the wreck of the Titanic: they find a Midget, a Japanese navy submarine and part of the Japanese plan to destroy Pearl Harbor.

These seamounts, or underwater mountains, rise more than a thousand feet off the ocean floor, triggering a natural upwelling of nutrient - rich seawater that in turn attracts baitfish and the open - sea predators that feed upon them.

Just beyond these colorful coral gardens, the sea floor drops steeply into a trench known as the Tongue of the Ocean, which plunges to depths of more than 6,000 feet and is home to marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, and other large fish species.

Dropping sharply into a trench known as the Tongue of the Ocean, the sea floor plunges to depths of more than 6,000 feet and is home to marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, marlin, and other large fish species.

The sea floor slopes away to more than 40 meters, the maximum recreational diving limit.

As I looked back up at the surface of the water from the sea floor, I could tell that we'd descended much deeper than I had ever done and was excited to start exploring the reef at these depths.

Salon open from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm non-stop, on the 2nd floor of the Hôtel Royal Barrière • Bicycle rides Nothing better than a bicycle ride to explore the region or simply admire the charms of Deauville around the town or along the Boardwalks with the sea in the background.

As we entered further into the bay, approaching the Cendana Pearl Farm, established for more than three decades in the region, the abundance of macro life and soft coral living and growing, respectively, among the sea floor increased.

There are few ways to show all that in the typical 15 - 30 minute floor demo, but I felt not - really - an - MMO Sea of Thieves actually did it better than most legitimate MMOs have.

Yesterday, the Commerce Department and University of New Hampshire released the details of last summer's sonar survey of the sea floor off the Alaskan coast, which was able to push nearly 200 miles farther out toward the North Pole than it had in previous years because of the extraordinary ice retreat of 2007.

«Neogene extension and basin deepening in the West Antarctic rift inferred from comparisons with the East African rift and other analogs WE LeMasurier — Geology, 2008 intl-geology.geoscienceworld.org Abstract The West Antarctic rift system differs from other volcanically active rift systems in two unusual respects: (1) the rift floor lies 1000 — 2000 m lower in elevation than others, and (2) four interior ice - filled troughs extend between 1500 m and 2555 m below sea level.

In any case, heat releases from the Arctic sea floor do not get higher up in the water column than, typically, ~ 500-1000 m from the ocean floor due to constantly mixing with ambient water on its way up (so - called entrainment).

The broader implications of this study suggest that carbon budgets of the deep ocean in the past and thus climate relationships may have been much stronger affected by these processes near the sea floor than previously thought.

The oceans are buffered by sediments and volcanic rocks on the sea floor and even in past times when atmospheric temperature and CO2 were far higher than at present, there were no acid oceans.