Sentence examples for ocean spreading from inspiring English sources

Take the vast photograph of a tiny black figure standing on the summit of an iceberg with the dark ocean spreading all around it.

Maybe that obscene slick of ocean spreading unnaturally into the tubes and tunnels of the greatest city on earth will shock enough people to change the debate.

Following further conquests, Arabians came to dominate maritime trade in the Indian Ocean, spreading Islam along the East African coast and, eventually, Southeast Asia.

I might have felt differently then, but the magic of that water, the sheer size of the ocean, spreading wide to the horizon, north, east, and south, deep and restless, infected me.

It is a product of the Cobb hotspot, but now sits on an ocean spreading center between the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Plate, offset by the Blanco Fracture Zone to the south and a ridge-built triple junction to the north.

Fe2+ is common in ocean spreading centers and hydrothermal discharge where it often forms complexes with sulfide, resulting in iron sulfur (Fe S) mineral phases.

On the canyon's rim, Powell sees "a polylithic ocean spread to the horizon, crest after crest of rocks caught in leaps, or squatting to leap, or carved apart in midleap".

Deposits of Fe-Si-Mn oxyhydroxides are commonly found on the seafloor on seamounts and mid-ocean spreading centers.

Up to the present, their presence has been noted at mid-ocean spreading centers in the east Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic and Indian Oceans, and in the back-arc basins in the west Pacific (reviewed in [ 15]).

Another approach, ocean fertilization, would try to stimulate blooms of phytoplankton in the open ocean by spreading fertilizer across wide swaths of water.

In addition to ocean basin spreading, continental rifting initiated during the Jurassic, eventually separating Africa and South America from Antarctica, India, and Madagascar.