Sentences with phrase «through seafloor sediments»
The marine mammal may even have had short, walrus - like whiskers to better sense prey while grubbing through seafloor sediments, the researchers speculate.
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Working in remote conditions, researchers in the winter of 2012 ran a drill through 450 meters of ice and 500 meters of ocean to collect seafloor sediments on either side of this lost bulwark.
They suspended conical «sediment traps» above the seafloor to collect and measure the amount of marine snow falling through the water.
Researchers reconstructed Arctic circulation through deep time by measuring radioactive trace elements buried in sediments on the Arctic seafloor.
A recent study by Moffitt and colleagues of seafloor sediments from the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 to 17,000 years ago, revealed that Pacific Ocean ecosystems from the Arctic to Chile «extensively and abruptly lost oxygen when the planet warmed through deglaciation,» she said.