deep sediment

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• Sediment Profile Imagery — (SPI) is an underwater technique for photographing the interface between the seabed and the overlying water. The technique is used to measure or estimate biological, chemical, and physical processes occurring in the first few centimetres of… …   Wikipedia

• Deep-sea exploration — is the investigation of physical, chemical, and biological conditions on the sea bed, for scientific or commercial purposes. Deep sea exploration is considered as a relatively recent human activity compared to the other areas of geophysical… …   Wikipedia

• Deep sea mining — is a relatively new mineral retrieval process that takes place on the ocean floor. Ocean mining sites are usually around large areas of polymetallic nodules or active and extinct hydrothermal vents at about 1,400 3,700 meters below the ocean’s… …   Wikipedia

• deep-sea core — /deep see /, Oceanog. an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube. * * * …   Universalium

• deep-sea core — /deep see /, Oceanog. an intact sample of sediment extracted from the ocean floor by drilling with a long hollow tube …   Useful english dictionary

• Sediment — Cobbles on a beach River Rhône flowing into Lake Geneva …   Wikipedia

• deep-sea trench — or oceanic trench Any long, narrow, steep sided depression in the ocean bottom in which maximum oceanic depths (24,000–36,000 ft, or 7,000–11,000 m) occur. The deepest known depression of this kind is the Mariana Trench. Most trenches occur at… …   Universalium

• Deep water coral — Table coral, which can live in deep water (in this picture, it is in shallow, warm water) The habitat of deep water corals, also known as cold water corals, extends to deeper, darker parts of the oceans than tropical corals, ranging from near the …   Wikipedia

• Deep sea communities — giant tubeworm Deep sea communities currently remain largely unexplored, due the technological and logististical challenges and expense involved in visiting these remote biomes. Because of the unique challenges (particularly the high barometric… …   Wikipedia

• Deep sea fish — Humpback anglerfish Deep sea fish is a term for any fish that lives below the photic zone of the ocean. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep sea fish. Other deep sea fish include the flashlight fish, cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths …   Wikipedia

• Deep sea creature — A. cornuta The term deep sea creature refers to organisms that live below the photic zone of the ocean. These creatures must survive in extremely harsh conditions, such as hundreds of atmospheres of pressure, small amounts of oxygen, very little… …   Wikipedia