Sentences with phrase «under the ocean floor»

2 Under the Ocean Floor Several teams are currently hunting for life beneath the seabed.

Seismic surveys are done by blasting the water with acoustic noise to detect oil and gas deposits under the ocean floor.

I wonder how many of those who think they know all there is to know about earth would have thought there were vast amounts of freshwater under the ocean floor 20 years ago.

The Department of Energy said it also has the potential to eventually unlock massive reservoirs of methane hydrates that are believed to exist under the ocean floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

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A robot BP was using under the water in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally bumped a vent, causing BP to have to remove the containment cap that was siphoning off some of the oil gushing from the ocean floor.

Another grand project under way is the Ocean Observatories Initiative, which aims to wire up the ocean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean fOcean Observatories Initiative, which aims to wire up the ocean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean focean with a network of sensors strung from the surface to the ocean focean floor.

SEALAB by Ben Hellwarth In the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean floor.

The Arctic ocean floor hosts vast amounts of methane trapped as hydrates, which are ice - like, solid mixtures of gas and water.These hydrates are stable under high pressure and cold temperatures.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.

Placing her «chemical gardens» under high pressure, to simulate conditions on the ocean floor, only improves the efficiency of RNA formation.

No one disputes that a lot of oil lies untapped under the rocky floors of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans off the U.S. coasts, in areas where Congress has banned drilling since 1982.

Fumio Inagaki from the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology, who made the discovery, says the lake probably formed when carbon dioxide seeped out through the ocean floor from a deep - sea volcano and pooled under a blanket of solid, icelike CO2 hydrate and deep - sea sediment.

Sections of its icy shell slide beneath each other in a similar way to Earth's continents and ocean floors — which could provide nutrients to any life that might live under the ice.

Ten years ago, a team of researchers in the US1 argued that the ancient zircon crystals probably formed when tectonic plates moving around on the Earth's surface collided with each other in a similar fashion to the disruption taking place in the Andes Mountains today, where the ocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South Ameocean floor under the Pacific Ocean is plunging under South AmeOcean is plunging under South America.

Of course I know what is an auction, and this morning, when the air was still cool and we garbage soldiers sat upon the metal floor of the highway truck as it drove under the tall span of the golden bridge, the smell of the ocean behind us, I held the newspaper tight in my lap so no wind would touch it and that is when I saw the short notice of Seized Property for Sale, a three - bedroom home.

He had lived in an apartment with books touching the ceilings, and rugs thick enough to hide dice; then in a room and a half with dirt floors; on forest floors, under unconcerned stars; under the floorboards of a Christian who, half a world and three - quarters of a century away, would have a tree planted to commemorate his righteousness; in a hole for so many days his knees would never wholly unbend; among Gypsies and partisans and half - decent Poles; in transit, refugee, and displaced persons camps; on a boat with a bottle with a boat that an insomniac agnostic had miraculously constructed inside it; on the other side of an ocean he would never wholly cross; above half a dozen grocery stores he killed himself fixing up and selling for small profits; beside a woman who rechecked the locks until she broke them, and died of old age at forty - two...

Here you live out in the Indian Ocean inside a floating house with a ground floor that is under water.

You get about 20 minutes of ocean floor time (and a free under water photo for the holiday album).

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The expansion adds a wealth of new content to the game and also allows players to venture under the dark ocean waves and explore an entirely separate world on the ocean floor.

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 USGS, which announced the discovery, estimates there is about 700,000 tcf of gas hydrate worldwide, most of it below the ocean floors, where hydrates form under high pressure and cold temperatures.

[1] Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System where temperatures are low and water ice is common, significant deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of Earth.

[1] Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System, where temperatures are low and water ice is common, significant deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of the Earth.

In particular, they say that natural chemical reactions under 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) of ocean floor off California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia could lock in as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 production

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