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Simulations, ancient magnetism suggest mantle plumes may bend deep beneath Earth's crust
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once though ...
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One stop-shop for seamount managers and researchers: Launch of new SeamountsOnline portal
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A free online portal is providing deep-sea researchers and managers with new tools for finding and accessing information on the biological communities that live on seamounts (undersea mountains), facilitating ...
Seamounts may serve as refuges for deep-sea animals that struggle to survive elsewhere
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts (underwater mountains) offshore of the California coast. It has generally been ...
Study reveals secret sex life of fish
Feb 22, 2006 |
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Scientists have long thought of deep-sea pelagic fish as nomadic wanderers, but now they suspect the fish may be meeting at ridges or seamounts to spawn.
Long-lived deep-sea fishes imperiled by technology, overfishing
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Feb 19, 2007 |
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Many commercially prized fish from the depths of the world's oceans are severely threatened by over-fishing and the species' ability to recover is constrained by the fishes' long lifespans and low reproductive success, a ...
The hills and valleys of Earth's largest salt 'flat'
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2007 |
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Using a new twist on standard Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, a team of scientists has found that Earth’s largest salt flat is rougher than expected, according to a new report led by Adrian Borsa of Scripps Institution ...
Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)
Nov 22, 2009 |
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Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...
Explorers marvel at 'Brittlestar City' on seamount in powerful current swirling around Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2008 |
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Census of Marine Life-affiliated scientists, plumbing the secrets of a vast underwater mountain range south of New Zealand, captured the first images of a novel “Brittlestar City” established against daunting ...
Ancient deep-sea coral reefs off southeastern US serve as underwater 'islands' in the Gulf stream
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 19, 2008 |
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Largely unexplored deep-sea coral reefs, some perhaps hundreds of thousands of years old, off the coast of the southeastern U.S. are not only larger than expected but also home to commercially valuable fish populations and ...
Hotspots or not? Isotopes score one for traditional theory
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 06, 2006 |
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New chemical evidence sheds light on the physical constraints of 'hotspots' -- locations where upwellings of Earth's mantle material form seamounts and island chains. Although the existence of hotspots has ...
Expeditions reveal gulf of California's deep sea secrets, as well as human imprints
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego returning from research expeditions in Mexico have captured unprecedented details of vibrant sea life and ecosystems in the Gulf of California, ...
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