Sentences with phrase «water seamount»

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More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

The second spot was Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano, along with its associated hydrothermal vents, where the team could study the transfer of minerals from beneath the seafloor into the water and access hardy microbes that thrive in the vent fluids, which can reach 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

Water tends to discharge where fluid flow is more difficult due to less favorable rock properties or smaller seamount size.

The models show that water tends to enter the crust («recharge») through seamounts where fluid flow is easiest due to favorable rock properties and larger seamount size.

«Hydrothermal siphon» drives water circulation through seafloor: New study explains previous observations of ocean water flowing through the seafloor from one seamount to another.»

From the video, Lissette and her fellow researchers from the NOC and the Universities of Bristol, Essex and Newfoundland identified over 30 000 animals living on the surface of the Annan Seamount in the Equatorial - Atlantic, including spectacular cold - water coral colonies.

And certainly not in the deep sea, where coral reefs, seamounts and rugged canyons that harbour diverse marine life are being destroyed as trawlers head for deeper waters.

There is a census of coastal waters and a census of the abyssal plains, a census of coral reefs and a census of seamounts.

The dark depths of our oceans are home to cold - water corals, sponge fields, seamounts, hydrothermal vents and a multitude of other ecosystems that shelter strange and mysterious creatures found nowhere else on Earth.

The key deep - sea habitats are the abyssal plains, hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, cold - water corals, seamounts (underwater mountains) and the deep - water column.

In addition, seamounts rising into the ocean create obstacles that shape ocean currents and direct deep, nutrient - rich waters up the sloping sides of seamounts to the surface.

The archipelago is enormous and there are some areas where soft corals and sea fans dominate, other areas with astounding hard coral formations, sea grass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, drop offs, caves, black sand, white sand, vertical walls, seamount's, ship wrecks, planes, shallow water lagoons, and massive pinnacles.

«The Karasik Seamount belongs to a chain of seamounts rising from 5000 m to 500 m water depth.

Lesson 1 - Plate Tectonics Lesson 2 - Mid-Ocean Ridges Lesson 3 - Deep - Sea Corals Lesson 4 - Subduction Zones Lesson 5 - Chemosynthesis and Hydrothermal Vent Life Lesson 6 - Deep - Sea Benthos Lesson 7 - Water Cycle Lesson 8 - Ocean Currents Lesson 9 - Ocean Waves Lesson 10 - Tides Lesson 11 - Energy from the Oceans Lesson 12 - Food, Water, and Medicine from the Sea Lesson 13 - Hurricanes Lesson 14 - Seamounts An average of 2,000 strong earthquakes and large volcanic eruptions occur every year all around the world.

If this is taken into account, it can be concluded that POC export fluxes increase while the passing waters are advected around and over the seamount, with the highest export fluxes occurring on the downstream side of the seamount.