For the scene before him was but the background in his brain for the vision of peace that was his--a vision that was his often during long nights on the bridge when the old Tryapsic wallowed on the vexed
ocean floor, her decks awash, her rigging thrumming in the gale gusts or snow squalls or driving tropic rain.
* Coral reefs cover 0.2 percent of the
ocean floor. The Great Barrier Reef, located off northeastern Australia, is 2,027 kilometers (1,260 miles) long-the largest coral reef in the world.
Unlike most other cloaking techniques that rely on transformation optics, this one is based on the influence of the
ocean floor's topography on the various "layers" of ocean water.
The brown seaweed called kelp reaches from the
ocean floor to the water's surface, usually spanning 10 to 20 meters, says Benjamin S.
To outwit hungry predators, for example, the hand-size fish hunkers down on the
ocean floor, looking more like an algae-covered rock than a tasty meal.
"A French naval vessel has detected a weak signal from the flight data recorders, and a mini submarine was dispatched on Monday to try and find the black boxes at the bottom of the
ocean floor," The Telegraph quoted a French newspaper Le Monde.
They explore the frozen landscape and the
ocean floor to learn how organisms living in the mud are affected by fishing.
Lamellibrachia [lah-meh-lee-BRA-kia] inhabits the Gulf of Mexico's
ocean floor. Marine biologists determined the tubeworm's lifespan by measuring the length of 650 specimens, then estimating their growth rate (change in size over time) for several years.
They sit hundreds of meters below the permafrost in the northern latitudes and, in even greater abundance, in sediments beneath the
ocean floor. What's more, the gas is locked in place under low temperatures and high pressures, which make this icy source of energy difficult to tap.
He'd done his dissertation on organic matter that sinks to the
ocean floor, but he'd never seen a whale down there.
This resulted from the
ocean floor splitting apart as magma (hot molten rock) welled up from Earth's interior.
Although portions of the
ocean floor rose in many places as a result of the Dec.
ocean floor - the bottom of a sea or ocean