sea floor

"Personally, I would have preferred to leave the bodies of our loved ones on the seafloor, " he added, repeating his long-held view.

A. Finding samples left on the seafloor is all about documentation, documentation, documentation.

With oil settling into the sediment deep on the seafloor, it's difficult to see at this point exactly how they are going to pull that off.

The submarine Alvin has already been launched and is making the hour-and-a-half-long descent to the seafloor thousands of feet below.

The company remains committed to its objective of developing the world's first seafloor massive sulphide recovery operation.

The crew attaches new lengths of pipe one by one from the top until the "drill string" is long enough to hit the seafloor.

However, by means of tsunami inverse method, the vertical seafloor displacement can be calculated implicitly.

Now it is one of a host of countries eagerly laying claim to swathes of the seafloor that may one day yield huge riches.

The country hopes to turn the seafloor deposits of methane hydrates into a commercial source of natural gas.

Marine invertebrates, sea urchins use their spines to move along the seafloor, and crabs are known to be their natural predators.

The Russians even planted their national flag at the bottom of the polar seafloor beneath the North Pole.

Also discussed were ocean circulation, polar icecaps, Amazon rainforests, seafloor methane deposits and a west African dustbowl.

On a seasonal basis, algal blooms near the sea surface send pulses of organic material to the deep seafloor.

One way of ocenologists to analyse the sediment on the seafloor is to see how long term temperature will affect the depth of the ocean.

The seafloor highlight tour plunges the viewer into the sea from the sky.

T, Sacrifice Seafloor Debris: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Such ridges occur where the great plates of the Earth's crust are spreading apart, and the seafloor holds formations of hot, volcanic rock.

This thesis aims to offer a set of feasible heat dissipation scheme for the subsystems of Seafloor Junction Box and realize the project.

Some of Earth's largest ancient lava flows lie below the Atlantic Ocean seafloor not far from the Big Apple.

glowing red vents ejecting lava into the sea, and lava flows across the seafloor.

The stability of the Seafloor Junction Box is especially important for it's the center in the Cabled Ocean Observatory System.

The seas may be rising due to climate change, but most of the seafloor is also dropping as part of the natural dynamics of Earth's crust.

This methane, as well as that produced by methanogens, is squeezed out of the rock and percolates up toward the seafloor.

Often the seafloor rose to within two meters of the surface of the water.

Inlarge parts of the ocean, the seafloor is made of thick, heavy clay, perfectfor absorbing radioactive decay products.

It uses sea-based instruments to determine how the seafloor is moving, and how strains build up.

The hope for a permanent solution remains with two relief wells intended to plug it completely far beneath the seafloor.

Evidence of Continental Drift and Seafloor spreading ; Plate Boundaries ; Additional Supporting Evidence For Plate Tectonics.

The Dead Sea is extremely murky, with the divers needing to feel for drops on the seafloor to locate the craters.

FOR THREE DAYS, WORKERS PUMPED WATER AND CONCRETE INTO THE CAISSONS TO PERMANENTLY SECURE THEM TO THE SEAFLOOR.

This paper discusses the design of the intelligent drivers for non-realtime monitor mode, which suits for seafloor MT acquisition.

Which observation about the Mid-Atlantic Ridge region provides the best evidence that the seafloor has been spreading for millions of years?

Since the legs touch the seafloor and support the drilling deck, oil industry people call a jackup a bottom-supported rig.

Undersea construction operations drive piles into the seafloor and blast holes in it with explosives.

Outfitted in a WASP suit, Phil Nuytten is the first man to dive on the northernmost shipwreck ever discovered on the seafloor.

Their efforts can yield insights into the difficulties associated with bioprospecting on the seafloor.

Would deploying, maintaining and removing buoys disturb the seafloor or otherwise change the ocean environment?

The team will look for new geological features and new species of marine life in the rift on the seafloor.

Statistical inversion of seafloor parameters based on Bayesian inference is an interesting topic in the research of underwater acoustics.

Adult pancake batfish on the seafloor could be immediately harmed by oil gushing from the broken wellhead.

In the days following, samples of solid gypsum were repeatedly brought on deck as drilling operations penetrated the seafloor.

But building a massive turbine and anchoring it firmly to the seafloor is expensive. So wind power is restricted to shallow seas.

A thick, overlying layer of seafloor rock and sediment would also serve as an additional natural seal to prevent escape.

In-situ measurement technique is the developing trend of modern seafloor heat flow measurement technique.

After scientists explore the seafloor and pick up samples with robotic arms, the pilot cuts the remaining anchors, and the sub surfaces.

The plate tectonic theory reveals the seafloor spreading and plate lateral movement, and illustrates magmatism related to plate boundaries.

Ocean-based wind turbines don't need to be firmly anchored to the seafloor, according to a new study.

Sea urchins brandish their spines on the seafloor near the Channel Islands.

Kato and the other researchers assumed those particles had absorbed rare earth elements and accumulated on the seafloor.

In 2007 he and his colleagues deployed a network of seafloor recorders and automated listening buoys in Massachusetts Bay.

Scientists say they've found solid evidence of a giant mass of hot rock under the seafloor in the region.

Japan plans to test extraction methods to obtain methane hydrates from the seafloor southwest of Tokyo.

Several faults cut across the ridge and nearby seafloor.

Batfish are poor swimmers, preferring to use their strangely adapted pectoral fins like legs to crawl about the seafloor.

An earthquake which occurs on the seafloor can push water upwards and create massive waves called tsunamis.

Pillow lavas form when molten rock is pushed up onto the seafloor at a very slow rate.

The vast majority of walruses in the Chukchi each summer are females who fatten up on clams that populate the seafloor.

Core HD196A, recovered from the seafloor of the northeastern South China Sea, has large amount of pyrites.

Analysis of seafloor interface side-scattering is the key technology of improving the detection performance of bistatic sonar.

Seafloor bedrock is younger near the ridge and older farther away.

A spiny lobster shyly crawls across the seafloor.

But when threatened, the animal will clamp down tightly on the seafloor to protect its soft underbelly.

Their distinctive whiskers are extremely sensitive and help them locate clams and other shellfish buried on the seafloor.

Photo Gallery: Marine Marvels A male peacock mantis shrimp plies the seafloor off Papua New Guinea.

The seafloor in this forest was strewn with sharp chunks of stone that were hard to avoid.

Along with Haida Heritage Site, the reserve is the first protected area to extend from the seafloor to the mountaintops.

This rift in the Caribbean seafloor plunges to a depth of more than 5000 metres below sea level.

Basalt is also found on the seafloor surrounding most continents, as well as inland.

Microscopic organisms settle to the seafloor and accumulate in marine mud.

The seafloor kept sinking, and its significantly steeper slope took us to greater depths.

The result: "seafloor massive sulfide deposits" that are rich in valuable metals.

A hawksbill turtle swims just above the seafloor with flippers spread like wings.

In theory the mud should force the oil and gas back into the reservoir below the seafloor .

Scientists in the US are using an underwater vehicle that can "plan its own experiments" on the seafloor.

Image: Lights from the submarine Alvin illuminate pillow lavas strewn about the seafloor.

Critical to these results are magnetic stripe patterns in the seafloor.

Many of the findings come from studies of core samples drilled from the deep seafloor over the past two decades.

My thesis research involved seafloor experiments using an erosion tunnel I invented and named Seaflume.

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

It has 132 island, this is the Pacific seafloor on a tall volcanic cone, exposing the sea part.

Exploiting the genetic information they contain doesn't require a continuous presence on the seafloor.

It also tests miniscule changes in gravity on the seafloor, which indicate CO2 density in the reservoir underneath.

Pound for pound, seafloor ore also has more gold, zinc, and silver than land deposits do.

On the final dive of the trip, the scanning sonar detected a large object on the seafloor.

He and his team have designed a dredge that can dislodge scallops without touching the seafloor.

The bedrock of the ridge and nearby seafloor is igneous rock.

When large quakes occur underwater, the seafloor may heave or sink.

Recently, the application of controlled-source electromagnetic method (CSEM) to seafloor detection has become the study hotspot overseas.

One approach, which is expensive and not yet widely applied, is called seafloor geodesy.

In the most recent prototypes, a thick coil of copper wire is inside the first component, which is anchored to the seafloor.

That's why seafloor mining should make economic sense in the first place.

The low-disturbance sampling of seafloor sediments is very important to ocean science researches.

The Gacun deposit is a typical massive sulfide deposit associated with Late Triassic seafloor calc-alkaline felsic volcanics (VHMS).

Before this extinction, marine animals were mostly filter feeders stuck in place on the seafloor, such as crinoids or "sea lilies. "

The minerals sank to the seafloor with their carbon loads and were buried.

Because the earth's oceans are so vast, much of the seafloor is unexplored.

A Bathypelagic Ctenophore from the benthic boundary layer, which was found attached to seafloor by adhesive tentacles.

It is the first time attainable rare earth elements were confirmed on the seafloor.

In fact, only about 2 percent of the seafloor lies below 20, 000 feet, in deep, muddy trenches.

Naisha: But how could. . . Are you suggesting that these islands were somehow raised from the seafloor?

Sulfur isotopic composition of modern seafloor hydrothermal sediment and its geological significance

Seafloor Three-dimension Visualization Technology and Its Application

The Representative Textures and Structures of the Seafloor Sulfide Black Smokers and Their Genetic Significance

Seafloor Classification from Multibeam Backscatter Data Using Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network

Application of Updated Satellite Remote Sensing Technique to the International Exploration for Seafloor Natural Gas Hydrate

Distribution and its dissolution of carbonate in seafloor surface sediment in the western South China Sea

Elemental geochemical records of modern seafloor hydrothermal activities in sediments from the central Okinawa Trough

Research on Scouring Around the Typical Oil Piles on Silty Seafloor

Technology and Application of the Geomagnetism Observation Mooring System on the Seafloor

His winged craft will operate solo or in pairs and travel miles along the seafloor. -Marshall Louis Reaves

Predication of stability zones and occurrence zones gas hydrate of multiple-composition natural in seafloor sediments

Equipment simulating seafloor extreme environment with remote monitor function

The seawater influence on sulfur isotopic evolution within modern seafloor hydrothermal chimneys

Discrimination of seafloor sediment properties from sound velocity waveform and amplitude

seafloor sediment classification using a neighborhood gray level co - occurrence matrix

Advances in the Investigation Technology of Modern Seafloor Hydrothermal Activities

A new type of seafloor hydrothermal activity--serpentinization and Lost City low temperature hydrothermal field

Circuit Drivers Design and Hardware Realization of Acquiring Seafloor Environment

ore-forming fluids originated from the old seafloor hydrothermal circulatory system;

Effect factors of turnoff time for shallow seafloor transient electromagnetic detecting system

Influence of Different Pre-Treatment Methods on Specific Gravity of Seafloor Sediment Grains in Dongsha Islands

Transient electromagnetic response modeling of magnetic source on seafloor and the analysis of seawater effect

Discussion of the Basic Geothermic Model of Natural Gas Hydrate's Reservoir Regions in Seafloor

Application of Microorganisms to Identification of Seafloor Hydrate

Acoustic seafloor classification using self organizing map neural network

The sound velocity variation in seafloor sediments on its axial stress-strain course

A study on nonlinear dynamics noise-reduction method to detect mines lying on the seafloor and anti-reverberation

Os Isotopic Compositions of Seafloor Massive Sulfide from the TAG Hydrothermal Field in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Network Communication Research of Towed TEM System for Shallow Seafloor Detection

The respond of sound velocity of seafloor sediments on its axial stress-strain course

Circuit drivers of signal-acquiring unit in seafloor magnetotelluric system

Analysis and Geochemistry of Manganese in the Modern Seafloor Hydrothermal Plumes

Theoretical Analysis to Mechanism of Seafloor Seismic Wave Induced by Sailing Vessel

The design of turbo-pressure and circulation seafloor sampling drilling machine

Research models of modern seafloor hydrothermal activities: A review

AVO numerical simulation of gas hydrates reflectors beneath seafloor

Industrial mineral and mineral material, and seafloor science and deep sea resource

Analysis and study on the sound velocity empirical equations of seafloor sediments

A preliminary study of seafloor gas seepage in central sag zone of Yinggehai Basin

The Natural Magnetotelluric Field Detection on the Seafloor

Application of Fatigue Model in Evaluating Stability of Seafloor Silt

The Research on Design of Seafloor Sediment Sampling Drilling Machine

Barium Cycling in Pore Water of Seafloor Sediment: Indicator of Methane Fluxes

Contamination of Seafloor Superficial Sediments in the Yongdingxin River Estuary

Studies on the Seafloor Hydrothermal Activity and Ocean Science

Ocean-Drilling Exploration of Life Beneath the Seafloor

Seafloor models and mechanics of sound energy flow penetration

Seafloor topography of the Okinawa Trough

Variations in shear-wave splitting in young Pacific seafloor

Long-span and Multi-point Synchronizing Data Acquisition for Seafloor Magnetotelluric Based on Union of Marine and Land

Study on Seafloor Heat-Flow In-situ Measurement Techniques

after the fertilized eggs take root on the seafloor , they can grow up to 15 centimeters per year

A seafloor observatory to monitor gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico

Review of measurement techniques of seafloor heat flow

Trawling and dredging impact the seafloor

The Construction of Seafloor Digital Terrain Model Based on Multibeam Soundings

A mud sample from the seafloor was found to contain rare earth elements. (Harufumi Mori)

Freshwater Springs in the Seafloor

Glacial Till and Boulders on Seafloor

A study on seafloor sediment and its acouso-physical properties in the southeast offshore sea area of Hainan Island in China

The Development of seafloor prospecting instrument in China