Sentence examples for seafloor level from inspiring English sources

Two and a half hours after the inflation began, the seafloor level stabilized at about 1 meter above its original position.

Fig. 8 Time series of seafloor level variations at 8 OBP gauge stations for 11 days prior to the Tohoku-Oki earthquake after reducing nontectonic fluctuations [40].

The Japan Meteorological Agency JMAA) has employed a pressure gauge, derived from the HP measurement system, to a real-time observatory cabled from land for monitoring offshore tsunamis and seafloor level changes (Isozaki et al., 1980).

The latter are frequently characterized by distinctive fossils, though rarely of the benthic variety, indicating that they were formed when seafloor oxygen levels were very low.

Quite distinct from the Silurian reef mounds are concentrations of tabulate corals and lamellar stromatoporoids that lived in shallow water on a level seafloor.

Icebergs are commonly far larger than those in the Arctic and have deeper keels; they scour the seafloor at deeper levels and would be more likely to damage seafloor installations such as wellheads, pipelines, and mooring systems.

When inactive, the gates will lay flat on the seafloor; when water levels rise, they will be pumped full of air and rise above the surface to block sea water.

An April 2014 mission conducted by the research group Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG) aboard the submersible Alvin which had famously been involved in investigating the wreckage of the Titanic noted some ecological recovery of oiled areas of the seafloor, though detectable oil levels in sediment cores remained the same as they had been four years earlier.

Due to natural variations in CO2 levels in seafloor sediments, baseline CO2 measurements and knowledge of physical chemical processes affecting the regional distribution of CO2 and pH are critical for the design of appropriate monitoring strategies to assess potential impacts of CO2 seepage from subseabed storage reservoirs.

Each takes viewers to the reefs of Ischia, Italy, where volcanic vents on the seafloor result in high levels of ocean acidification.

Our study shows that high-temperature seafloor vents produce high levels of acoustic radiation which can provide valuable information about geological and physical processes occurring within these systems, and may provide animals with information about the environment they inhabit.