Sentences with phrase «water currents slowly»

Not exact matches

The journey of light through space is illuminated in the water and gold dust, moving slowly with convection currents from heated elements beneath the tank, alluding to the similar structure of macro and microworlds: stars in the cosmos and micro-particles in the subatomic scale.

Now consider thermohaline currents, hugh volumes of water slowly circulating around the world's oceans.

1µmol CH4 = 1.6e - 5g / l = 1.6e - 2 g / m ^ 3 1.5 e9 g / day / 2.4 e15 m ^ 3 = ~ 6.3e - 7 g / m ^ 3 / day = ~ 2.5e - 6 micromolar increase per day diluted over the volume of the Gulf, However, given the 80 fold variation in concentrations observed above under much milder conditions, and the observations of clathrate formation at the wellhead, there are undoubtedly plumes of near methane saturated water (with volumes orders of magnitude less than that of the Gulf) drifting in the currents, slowly dissipating by diffusion and biogeochemical oxidation.