Sentences with phrase «under the seafloor»

Not only is there a much higher diversity of microbes under the seafloor than originally thought, large and active populations exist much deeper in the sediments than was believed, the team reports 21 July in Nature.

Turning big, frozen deposits of methane buried under the seafloor into fuel for our cars and homes is coming closer to reality.

There are gas hydrates under the seafloor at Storegga today, and before the slide, says Mienert, there were probably a lot more.

This cutaway view of Saturn's moon Enceladus is an artist's rendering that depicts possible hydrothermal activity that may be taking place on and under the seafloor of the moon's subsurface ocean, based on recently published results from NASA's Cassini mission.

While hydrothermal activity can produce considerable quantities of hydrogen, in porous rocks often found under seafloors, radiolysis could produce copious amounts as well.

It is also the main component of natural gas; the Department of Energy is investigating whether the fuel can be mined from humongous deposits under the seafloor.

For more than two decades, scientists studying hydrothermal circulation in the water under the seafloor have assumed that the flow is relatively stable.

Nearly a third of all the life on this planet consists of microbes living without oxygen under the seafloor.

Microbes living under the seafloor today, Parkes speculates, may have survived the growth and splintering of continents, the opening and closing of oceans; they may have been buried, subducted, frozen in hydrate, and spat out of a mud volcano, only to be buried, subducted, and spat out again.

Oil companies and geophysicists routinely use this approach to collect information about the geology under the seafloor.

The smoke turned out to contain concentrated metal sulfides, which the superheated salt water was drawing out from the volcanic rock under the seafloor.

Global fuel supplies may soon be dramatically enlarged thanks to new techniques to tap into huge reserves of natural gas trapped under the seafloor.

«Maybe microbes are eating it, or maybe it's accumulating in reservoirs under the seafloor.

Companies have been burying the carbon under the seafloor.

One can imagine an underground network of CO2 pipelines for EOR — and ultimately underground storage of the greenhouse gas — that grows to the size of the underground and aboveground network of oil and gas pipelines that currently exists, one that covers most continents and even extends offshore to where CO2 can most safely be buried under the seafloor.

The Navy wanted to know if hydrates under the seafloor were interfering with acoustic signals picked up by an underwater hydrophone array used by the military to track Soviet subs.

Methane - producing microbes under the seafloor may have set the stage for catastrophe, yet again.

Although these two carbon sources alone wouldn't have accounted for the dramatic warming event that followed, once a bunch of greenhouse gas is released into the atmosphere, as we modern earthlings have been observing in real time lately, it destabilizes and releases other greenhouse gases like methane locked up in permafrost or under the seafloor.