News tagged with seabed
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Five-limbed brittle stars move bilaterally, like people
It appears that the brittle star, the humble, five-limbed dragnet of the seabed, moves very similarly to us.
May 10, 2012 |
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New exploration shows parts of North Atlantic seabed were once above sea level
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data obtained from oil searching contractors, researchers have discovered that parts of what is now the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland, were at one time raised up enough ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 12, 2011 |
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'Goldilocks Zone' may go colder than previously thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- The survival of life on Earth is possible only within a relatively narrow temperature range known as the "Goldilocks Zone," which ranges from around 0 to 100°C. In many ecosystems life is ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Elgin platform gas leak plugged safely, says Total
French energy giant Total said Monday it had successfully plugged a gas leak at a North Sea platform that cost the firm hundreds of millions of dollars and threatened to trigger a major explosion.
May 21, 2012 |
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Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'
Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Exploding dinosaur hypothesis implodes
Exploding carcasses through putrefaction gases - this is how science explained the mysterious bone arrangements in almost fully preserved dinosaur skeletons for decades. Now a Swiss-German research team has ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Scientists finding sink holes in Great Lakes
Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments.
May 04, 2009 |
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Greater tsunami threat identified
The shape of the seabed where the 2004 Sumatra earthquake struck may indicate that the strength of the underlying rocks added to the size of the resulting tsunami, according to new research.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Glass sponge as a living climate archive
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists have discovered a new archive of historical sea temperatures. With the help of the skeleton of a sponge that belongs to the Monorhaphis chuni species and that lived in the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Oceanographers develop method for measuring the pace of life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life deep in the seabed proceeds very slowly. But the slow-growing bacteria living many meters beneath the seafloor play an important role in the global storage of organic carbon and have a long-term effect ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Quake-prone Japan looks at geothermal energy
The forces that make Japan one of the world's most quake-prone and volcanic countries, and sparked a nuclear disaster, could become part of its long-term energy solution, experts say.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Gas hydrate strategy reinforced
Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns."
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Visualizing the flow of molten rock through seabed mantle
New information about how most of the Earth’s crust formed has been uncovered by investigators who utilized the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to obtain unprecedented, three-dimensional ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Japan's mega-quake struck in small zone of fault: study
The deadly 9.0-magnitude quake that struck off northeastern Japan on March 11 ruptured a relatively small part of a notorious fault that straddles the Pacific seabed, Japanese scientists reported on Wednesday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Engineers build giant dome to contain US oil spill
Engineers began constructing a giant dome to place over a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico to contain a growing spill threatening the US coast, officials said Tuesday.
Apr 27, 2010 |
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