the seafloor

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

The Natural Magnetotelluric Field Detection on the Seafloor

Studies on the Seafloor Hydrothermal Activity and Ocean Science

Ocean-Drilling Exploration of Life Beneath the Seafloor

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

Trawling and dredging impact the seafloor

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

Freshwater Springs in the Seafloor