Sentence examples for seafloor from inspiring English sources

And combining the streams from multiple subsea wells and separating oil from gas on the seafloor means fewer risers, or pipes to the surface, are needed.Despite the adverse working conditions, there have been several big deepwater discoveries in recent years.

It is also known that methane clathrates are rife in seafloor sediments around the world.

There is evidence that the oceans on both are in contact with a rocky seafloor that can provide the elements life needs.

Its "subsea boosting system" uses electric pumps on the seafloor to help the oil on its one-and-a-half-mile journey to the surface.

No new rights are given over fish or other creatures in the water column, but living creatures on or below the seafloor that are immobile "at the harvestable stage" are treated like minerals.

Vast releases of methane from clathrates are widely thought to have played a part in two global temperature spikes that led to mass extinctions about 250m and 55m years ago.Because the icy slush left over after methane removal is less structurally stable than the clathrates, stripping the seafloor of some of its methane might result in frequent landslides that release much more methane.

The water dissolves minerals deep in the Earth's crust before rising like a geyser from the seafloor at temperatures of up to 400°C.This mineral-laden fluid, if it is rich in iron and sulphur, emerges to create a plume of black "smoke", from which, when it meets cold bottom water, the minerals are precipitated.

Furthermore, they say that the sandy, seafloor habitat held little marine life and this habitat is common in the region.

Masses of sand are gathered from the seafloor of the Arabian Gulf.

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

Having formed a crust on the seabed during periods of seawater evaporation, the salt has since been covered by millennia of silt deposits from rivers emptying into sea, which over time turned to rock and formed the base of the seafloor.