Sentences with phrase «than seawater»

Because that newly released water is less dense than both seawater and hydrate - seawater mix, it will rise as well.

The bodies of water — roughly eight and five kilometres squared, respectively — exist at temperatures below freezing and are not connected to any marine water sources or surface meltwater inputs, but rather are hypersaline, containing water four to five times saltier than seawater, which allows the water to remain liquid at these cold temperatures.

Although the water is natural, it can be several orders of magnitude more saline than seawater and is often laced with naturally occurring radioactive material.

With an average temperature of eight degrees Fahrenheit, six times saltier water than seawater, and the highest nitrous oxide levels of any body of water on Earth, it's safe to call the Lake Vida research site a «challenging environment.»

The methane eruptions release brine, which pools together because it is five times heavier than seawater.

In fact, marine sediment eDNA concentrations have been shown to be 3 orders of magnitude higher than seawater eDNA (Torti et al 2015).

My point is that seawater at -0.5 C has a very different effect on fresh water ice than seawater at +0.5 C, and yet that is only 1 degree of warming.

Sea - ice only stands above seawater becaus it is less dense than seawater and hence occupies more volume than the equivalent mass of seawater.

The anoxic basins, so called because they are devoid of oxygen, occur below 3,000 m beneath the surface and are five to ten times more saline than seawater.

She explained that the saltiness of the lakes — four to five times saltier than seawater — allows the water to remain liquid despite below - freezing temperatures.

In one of their all the more astounding discoveries they found that Galaxy Ultimate Marshmallow Hot Chocolate is saltier than seawater.

Over the past several decades, massive aquifers beneath the seabed have been found off coastlines across the globe, filled with water that ranges from fresh to about two - thirds less saline than seawater.

Because this salt - saturated water is much denser than seawater, it remains an intact pool with defined shores and observable waves.

That water is saltier than seawater and may contain naturally occurring arsenic and radioactive elements trapped inside rock formations deep underground.

Scientists discovered a subglacial lake underneath the Canadian ice continent that is four to five times saltier than seawater.

Rutishauser said that the salinity of the Devon subglacial lake, which is four or five times saltier than seawater, is due to the melting of the basal ice from the surrounding rock formations.

Brine is denser than seawater and therefore sinks to the ocean bottom and can damage the ecosystem.

The wastewater is about 9 percent salt, more saline than seawater, which is about 3.5 percent salt.

At such a depth, CO2 becomes denser than seawater and liquefies — which means that, even if a leak were to occur, it shouldn't be able to rise up to the surface.