Sentences with phrase «than the ocean floor»

Less is known about them, and similar formations, than the ocean floor or even outer space.

Not exact matches

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

But perhaps more importantly, 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycle in reefs, despite the fact that they cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

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.

On the deep ocean floor, for instance, more than 80 percent of the species being found are unknown.

Rather than spreading out over the ocean floor, these cone - shaped creatures lived in crowded colonies, which hid their vulnerable body parts from predators — an ecological dynamic that occurs in modern reefs.

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.

Ocean floors, in particular, were a greater mystery than the surface of the moon.

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.

A crew of a dozen sailors, a geophysics professor, and two graduate students, we were combing the ocean floor for buried methane hydrate, an ice - like form of natural gas estimated to be more abundant than fossil fuels.

For us to have better maps of the moon, Mars, and Jupiter than our own ocean floor is baffling.

For us to have better maps of the moon, Mars, and Jupiter than of our own ocean floor is baffling...»

Megaplumes, however, can soar more than several thousand feet off the ocean floor and spin like slow but gargantuan tornadoes.

If an impactor landed in the deep ocean, it wouldn't create much shocked quartz either, because the ocean floor has less quartz in it than continental crust.

Deploying new sensors that drift with sometimes strong currents (allowing better measurement of marine snow than sensors placed on the ocean floor or tethered to the surface), the team sampled the flora and fauna and measured the amount of falling carbon material captured to assess the role of the ocean as a true carbon sink.

Having explored extreme ecosystems on our own ocean floor — places like Lost City, where life is fuelled by nothing more than the reaction between rock and water — we know what to look for.

Researchers have obtained the first samples of microorganisms from sediments more than 2 kilometers below the ocean floor — only to discover they are surprisingly ordinary.

Later, holes drilled into the ocean floor showed slightly more heat coming up through the ocean floors than through the continents.

Reefs cover less than one - tenth of 1 % of the ocean floor but support more than 800 species of coral and 4,000 species of fish.

It was frequently said that we knew more about Mars than about the ocean floor.

As a result, the ocean's floor is much younger geologically than will be the continental landmasses.

The sandy shores and smaller wave options make Ucluelet a great place for amateurs to learn because the sand of the ocean floor is more forgiving to land on than most other beaches that have rocks or coral blanketing the floor below the water.

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.

Views of the Atlantic Ocean don't get any better than from the top floor of our San Juan oceanfront hotel.

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.

We have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean floor!

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This is one of the most geographically diverse of the islands, too, with soaring mountains (including Mauna Kea, which at 33,000 feet from the base of the ocean floor to its peak is quite a bit taller than even Mt. Everest), active volcanoes, lava - sand beaches, lush rainforests, the largest city outside Oahu (historic Hilo), a significant swath of desert plains, and sunny beaches lined with plush resorts.

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Today, coral reefs cover less than 0.2 % of the ocean floor, but contain approximately 25 % of the ocean's species.

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).

I really thought all 24 comments were excellent.I am not reassurred.I've posted a few times here on the RealClimate comment areas about the threat of methane melting from the ocean floor in the Arctic.I still believe that the potential feedback mechanisms will be worse than described here in the article by Gavin.I am a layman only, Harvard, 1982, Boston College Law School, 1987.

100 years of 0.5 W / m2 energy imbalance can only raise ocean basin temperature 0.2 C which can not raise air temperature more than 0.2 C. Temperature rise can be temporarily higher in the ocean's surface if energy is being added faster at the surface than it can diffuse downward to the ocean floor.

The NJORD is much less costly to deploy than a traditional, fixed meteorological mast and far more flexible since it's not anchored permanently to the ocean floor like traditional met masts deployed by other developers.

Since stipulated a sudden event rather than constant undersea eruptions are occurring all the time, we assume fast transition of heat from ocean floor to surface.

What is concerning is the possibility that rapid global warming could occur faster than many people believe is possible, if global warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human Extinction).

Now consider that their are over 100,000 active erupting volcanoes on the Oceans floors less than 4 % of all the 3,000,000 volcanoes down under the waves and you begin to see how keeping the public and even researchers unaware is pretty easy.

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.

I also find it more feasible that the KNOWN increase in surface temps across the ENTIRE surface of the ocean is responsible rather than an UNKNOWN change of UNKNOWN MAGNITUDE of UNKNOWN SIGN from thermal vents that cover only a relatively small percentage of the ocean floor.

That surface is hotter than the floor of the ocean, and so there is significant downward diffusion of thermal energy which then does not surface again until it reaches the polar regions.

Unlike our kitchen experiment, the oceans will cool much more slowly than the wetted floor.

Brine temperature at surface must be equal or infinitesimally less than that of ocean floor so that brine density at surface is equal or slightly greater than that of ocean floor.

It's been said that we know more about the topography of the moon than we do about some parts of the ocean floor.

Although they occupy less than 1 % of the ocean floor, they provide habitat for a million species and protect coastlines against erosion from tropical storms.

Although penguins, seals, and whales are the iconic species of the Southern Ocean, more than 90 percent of the species found there are invertebrates, many of which make the ocean floor their Ocean, more than 90 percent of the species found there are invertebrates, many of which make the ocean floor their ocean floor their home.