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despite precaution , 20 minutes after beginning to traverse the bottom , the huge sled smashed into the rocky sea floor.

The Artorian safe haven was a domed shelter located on the sea floor several kilometers below the surface of the Great Sea of Artorias.

And what you're seeing here is a cloud of densely packed hydrogen sulfide -rich water coming out of a volcanic axis on the sea floor .

The sea floor of this continental shelf usually undulates gently, rising occasionally to the surface in offshore banks or island.

The biggest blobs can sink to the sea floor, acting like a blanket, and smothering life at the bottom.

The commander said the metal was found in three locations on the sea floor, off the country's western coast.

Creeper. This robotic rover will track how much organic carbon reaches the sea floor.

The study shows the wind might have pushed back both waterways. That could have made a pathway on the sea floor for Moses' people to cross.

Tiny oceanic microorganisms solidify carbon and oxygen gases dissolved in sea water to produce a salt which settles on the sea floor.

For hours, they observed and documented the sea floor, struggling to understand the nature of polar life far below the surface.

Africa and South America are moving away from each other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them.

But the sea floor world is enormous in pressure, the environment is abominable, the general apparatus is difficult to be competent.

Eleven workers were killed. Oil continued to spill from a damaged well head on the sea floor until July.

I fear that the attachment to you is deeper and deeper, which makes myself precipitate to your sea floor , unable to free myself .

Top predators in the Red Sea, geometric moray eels (Gymnothorax griseus) slither out of a hideout on the sea floor.

Venus has no water, no plate tectonics, no deep sea floor , no steep mountains, no continents, probably few earthquakes or volcanoes.

Even more distant fields can be "tied back" to a platform using pipelines along the sea floor.

Oil continued to spill from a damaged well head on the sea floor until July.

Our earliest animal ancestor probably had no head, tail, or sexual organs, and lay immobile on the sea floor like a door mat.

Top predators in the Red Sea, geometric moray eels slither out of a hideout on the sea floor.

Transform fault earthquakes are most noticeable where the fault passes through a continent , rather than the sea floor.

The next step is to try to pump mud and other materials to the sea floor and block the well.

Sharks Nurse sharks prefer to dwell near the sea floor in the warm , shallow waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans .

The unit was lowered onto the sea floor near the flow, and undersea robots positioned the cap over the flow. This effort failed too.

Mr Juhlin said the Baltic Sea floor had proved the ideal wine cellar with low temperatures, darkness and little oxygen.

One thing is certain : The sea floor is no longer the province of geo scientists alone .

An Indonesian navy commander says ships searching for a missing passenger plane have found metal objects on the sea floor.

The distance to the sea floor is a minor part of the distance, as the distance through rock and mud is further.

Then there was the blowout preventer, a huge stack of valves on the sea floor.

however the regulators rejected that, saying that oil pollution remained on the sea floor and that oil was still seeping from the seabed.

Two days after the explosion, the rig sank to the ocean floor, and a pipe connected to the well on the sea floor broke.

Nielsen and his team took samples of bacteria-laced sediment from the sea floor close to Aarhus.

The units will process crude oil and natural gas extracted from beneath the sea floor, off the southern coast of Brazil.

Scientists have also discovered a section of rocky sea floor in the region--unusual in an area dominated by a soft and silty coastline.

The vast sea floor sold to infinite, the sky and the big invited to top, Chen to heaven with Chen borrow five hundred thousand.

the width of the stripes indicates the rate of the sea-floor spreading.

Dredges would suck sand from the sea floor and spray it in a protective arc along barrier islands.

Meanwhile, a new containment box - a cylinder called a "top hat" - was placed on the sea floor near the well leak.

Video footage from the sea floor showed the sinuous heave of oil into the sea weakening as the mud was pumped in.

which might be caused by mantle uplift during NW-SE-trending sea floor spreading of the Southwest sea basin.

Industrial trawlers and draggers are scraping the sea floor like bulldozers, taking everything in their path.

That has limited the endeavour to waters less than 50 metres deep, excluding 98% of the sea floor from inspection.

Sipadan is Malaysia's only oceanic island rising 700 meters from the sea floor in the Celebes Sea off the coast of East Malaysia.

Remains of the torpedo were discovered on the sea floor by investigators from Australia, Britain, Sweden and the US.

The same forces that produce the earthquakes also created Sumatra, its volcanoes, the nearby islands, and shaped the sea floor.

Once there, superheated water from geothermal vents at various locations on the sea floor cooked the sulfur into sulfide.

No problem. Simply surround at-risk cities (like New York) or countries (like Holland) with off-shore waterworlds anchored to the sea floor.

Investigators said they had discovered part of the torpedo on the sea floor and it carried lettering that matched a North Korean design.

It swims on the sea floor just as its ancestors did.

The field would now feed a pipeline under construction across the Baltic Sea floor from Russia to Germany.

seamount chain Several seamounts in a line with bases separated by a relatively flat sea floor.

Shellfish live on the sea floor, accumulating and concentrating the cesium in their bodies.

When they reached the sea floor and wanted to rise again, they simply let of the iron pellets.

With a loud noise, 1900 sinks to the sea floor with symbol of Virginia together . . .

Automatic video mosaic construction has wide applications in civil life, remote sensing, survey of sea floor and underwater structures.

The caisson could not simply be capped, because the oil pressure would blow its suction pile out of the sea floor.

How did people probably imagine the sea-floor before it was investigated?

They keep the oil away from shore - but the cost is paid in clogged wads of crude that sink to the sea floor.

The pyramid was situated 22 fathoms down, stood 120 feet high, with only 90 feet projecting out of the sea floor shifting sands.

Jun Han plans early next week in island waters of the sea floor extension fire training.

The oil and gas driller can send seismic waves miles under the sea floor, gather the echoes, and deduce whether petroleum might exist there.

Methane ice crystals formed in the dome, which prevented it from sitting stationery on the sea floor.

a US survey vessel is to arrive in the South China Sea next week "to conduct a sea floor survey" without permission from Beijing.

The Earth's climate may be dependent upon microbes that eat rock beneath the sea floor.

While the sea floor has had significant study, he points out little exploration has been done on this water above the deep floor.

The sounds bounce off rock layers below the sea floor and are picked up by the phones.

There's a story in the sea, in the waters of the sea, in the sediments and the rocks of the sea floor.

explore the land grottos, sea floor caves and natural salt caves to reserve oil.

Divers search for eggs on the sea floor dodging schools of fish, then turning in eggs for prizes.

An earthquake suddenly pushes part of the sea floor up or down.

After the Chicxulub impact, the spherules settled on the sea floor within minutes.

Calcareous sediments accumulated on a sea floor and eventually were compacted and cemented to form limestone.

In some areas even aragonitic shells of the pelagic molluscs pteropods coat the sea floor .

The valley itself is slowly sinking, and millions of years from now it will rest on the sea floor.

Its idea relies on wave pressure passing over air-filled pillows on the sea floor.

To avoid contaminating the sea floor, most dispersants are used only in deep water.

A horizon cemented by precipitation of calcite just below the sea floor.

Pb isotope analysis suggested that Pb mainly came from depth, related with volcanic activity in sea floor.

Obviously somewhere else old sea floor must be going away.

fluke bar An iron rod with hooks dragged along the sea floor to impale fish such as flatfishes . Also called murderer.

Fossil bodies might get into such rock by sinking to the sea floor.

The drop stones are embedded in an ancient sedimentary sea floor that formed around 650 million years ago.

And the sulphide mineral deposits lie directly on the sea floor.

What impacts are we talking about - on the coast, on the ocean surface, or the sea floor?

The smell and the fish die-off are caused by hydrogen sulfide erupting from decaying plants on the sea floor.

Sea floor spreading was discovered in the North Atlantic, and soon afterward in all other oceans.

Hadfield is on the sea floor inside the Aquarius underwater habitat's 122 square meters of living and working space.

These Holothurians are marine animals that inhabit the deep sea floor.

He adds that the study provides a "link between whales in the upper ocean and biodiversity at the deep-sea floor. "

sea stars are spiny , hard - skinned animals that live on the rocky sea floor.

Eleven workers were killed and the platform burned for two days before it sank to the sea floor, 5, 000 feet below.

What does life look like on and below the sea floor?

This is triggered by the buoys' anomalies of water column height above the sea floor.

Both sea-floor spreading and oceanization may lead to the formation of oceanic crust.

The easy way to explain it is the sea-floor spreading and the plate tectonics movement.

bathybic Pertaining to life on the deep sea floor.

Mixed with sea-floor sediment, they can constitute vast unstable deposits prone to underwater landslides.

At the same time, the speed of sea water and sea floor is also inverted.

Samantha Joye, a University of Georgia researcher, found these dead patches of sea floor during five expeditions after the spill.

They are schooling fish and live in areas of hard, rocky and uneven sea floor and steep off islands (Ref. 27354).

Before this, still do not have a person to complete similar work in so deep sea floor .

it is quite reasonable to regard the sea floor as the basic form of the crust of the earth,

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Application of the sea-floor visualization technique in gas hydrate exploration

Thoughts of accelerating to industrialize the resources development international sea floor district

More answers may be forthcoming now the blowout preventer has been raised from the sea floor;

Provide numerous analogs (outcrop, subsurface, and shallow sea floor models) for various reservoir types

Equipment parameters and experiment of sea-floor transient electromagnetic method

The location of ore bodies were controled by the system of fissures in the sea floor;

Modern Sea-floor Hydrothermal Activity and Genesis of Massive Sulfide Deposits: An Overview

Current research on chimneys growth model of modern sea-floor hydrothermal sulfide

Thread and Knowledge to Fossil Sea-Floor Hydrothermal Sedimentation of South China

Monitoring System of the Service Cabinet for Sea Floor Pipeline Cable Inspection and Maintaince Facilities

The Methods and Comparison of Measuring the Sediment's Sound Velocity in Sea Floor

High frequency seismic system for detailed mapping of sea floor;

Impact of Construction of No. 2 Berth in Mawan Port in Shenzhen Port Complex on Blowdown Pipeline in Sea Floor

Negative form of sea floor

The formation of the sea floor

Dynamic response of elastic sea floor under wave loading

Scientists Found New Hydrothermal Activity Area in Sea-floor of Mid-Ocean Ridge for the First Time

Drivable Test of Riser under the Interaction of Group Piles in Sea Floor Clay

Ocean Surface and Sea Floor Ambiance

Application and Calculation of Ultimate Load-bearing Capacity of Sea Floor Earth in DF 1-1 Oilfield

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