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Jan 5, 2023 · Mountain glaciers, perennial ice masses excluding the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are a critical water resource for nearly two billion people and are threatened by global warming.
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Mar 23, 2022 · To keep the circulation going, those deep waters have to rise back to the surface—and oceanographers can’t quite explain how it happens. Now, results from a campaign by the RRS Discovery, a U.K. research ship, seem to confirm a radical new view for how deep-ocean water rises.
Nov 22, 2016 · 'Atlas of the Underworld' reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth's history. Resurrected tectonic plates from slab graveyard yield visions of a lost planet. 22 Nov 2016. By Paul Voosen. Models show slabs of ocean crust (yellow) falling to Earth's core. Fabio Crameri. Share: Earth has a bad habit of erasing its own history.
Jun 27, 2024 · An international team used numerical modelling to quantify how underwater turbulence around underwater mountains, called seamounts, influences ocean circulation; finding it is an important mechanism in ocean mixing and one that is missing from climate models used in policy making.
4 days ago · Twenty of the encountered animal species may be new to science and found only on the summits of their home seamounts, adding to 150 possible new species from two previous expeditions. The animals ...
Apr 30, 2023 · By looking for tiny bumps in sea level caused by the gravity of subsurface mountains, researchers have roughly doubled the number of known seamounts.
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Jun 26, 2024 · Colossal undersea mountains, towering up to thousands of meters high, stir up deep sea currents: impacting how our ocean stores heat and carbon.