Sentences with phrase «vast ocean floor»

It was not that I was unappreciative of the rural beauty of the lush countryside, or the geometrically stunning patterns of the vivid rainforest flora — a wild, picturesque backdrop to the majestic, long stretches of beach beneath the awe - inspiring vistas of rock formations anchored in the vast ocean floor.

Standing 40 meters from the ground below on the longest canopy bridge in the world, I look across the lowland landscape of jungle kicking about in the wind like a vast ocean floor of green anemones.

Not exact matches

Our oceans are being decimated — deep - sea trawlers are clear - cutting our ocean floors leaving vast wastelands.

For instance, next year the ship JOIDES Resolution is scheduled to drill into the floor of the Pacific Ocean to extract rock cores that will span the period from about 53 million to 18 million years ago, a time of vast climate change.

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.

On board the new MNF vessel, Investigator, we have sonar that can map the sea floor to any depth, so all of Australia's vast ocean territory is now within reach, and that is enormously exciting,» Professor Arculus said.

The US Navy deployed vast arrays of hydrophones on the ocean floor during the cold war for anti-submarine warfare.

The discovery of a vast lake of liquid carbon dioxide beneath the ocean floor off Taiwan has startled earth scientists and raised hopes for a new strategy against carbon dioxide — related global warming.

In the vast ocean, without walls and far from the floor, jellyfish can become drifting islands of activity.

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is a vast array of sculptures posing as ancient artefacts newly found from 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.

(Washington and Cook 2011: 30 - 31) This is so because, among other things, there are vast amounts of methane stored in permafrost, methane hydrates on the ocean floor, and carbon in the forests that could be released as the world warms.