Sentence examples for seafloor environments from inspiring English sources

Bioturbation, the physical and chemical mixing of sediments by burrowing animals, is a critical engineering process in modern seafloor environments and exerts an important control on not only benthic ecology and sediment properties but also ocean-wide biogeochemical cycling.

It would be suitable for efficient near-seafloor resistivity mapping in rugged seafloor environments where it would be difficult to measure the exact positions and locations of individual electrodes in a horizontal electrode configuration (HEC) without any sophisticated positioning devices.

These solid compounds are called methane clathrates and are typically found in permafrost or associated with rocks and mud in deep seafloor environments.

This chapter presents a brief characterization of the seamount's seafloor environment by focusing on the multibeam bathymetry data and a series of video, oceanographic, and fishery surveys.

The papers presented in this collection focus on effects of drill cuttings and drilling muds on the seafloor environment and, as such, report results on sediment quality and bioaccumulation of drilling mud components in Iceland scallop and American plaice.

Magnetite in BIF could be derived from ferric iron reducing bacteria;[68] however, a suboxic to anoxic seafloor environment, combined with a paucity of microbial activity would also preserve magnetite and iron silicates such as greenalite.

The model estimates were compared to the observed variability in extant microbial communities in seafloor hydrothermal environments.

Therefore, it has been pointed out that H2-rich seafloor hydrothermal environments would have been predominantly driven by komatiite volcanism in the Hadean ocean (Takai et al. 2006).

Therefore, the serpentinization of Al-depleted komatiites may have been the main process that provided abundant H2-rich seafloor hydrothermal environments in the Hadean ocean, which potentially acted as a nursery for the prebiotic chemical evolution and the emergence and early evolution of life on Earth.

Microbial oxidation of sulfur is the basis of most ecosystems at seafloor hydrothermal environments.

The deposition of a Kuroko-like sequence seems to be closely related to the existence of a subsurface hydrothermal pool, indicating the Kuroko-type ore is formed not only in the seafloor chimney environment but also in the subsurface hydrothermal aquifer.