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- The shape of the ocean floor is known as bathymetry, which is caused by plate tectonic shifts. As the plates of the earth move, it creates the features of the ocean floor. The actual “holes” that make up the ocean are believed to just be how the earth’s crust formed.
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Aug 3, 2022 · Researchers with NOAA's Ocean Exploration team initially discovered sets of holes two-and-a-half kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic ocean north of the...
Jan 18, 2024 · Full of swirling sediments caused by frequent storms, the depths here are difficult to peer through —yet the obscured ocean floor is exactly what scientists here in the German Bight are trying ...
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Jul 28, 2022 · Deep in the waters along a volcanic ridge in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sea explorers using a remotely operated vehicle to examine largely unexplored areas found a pattern of holes in...
May 21, 2024 · Off the coast of Big Sur, California, deep beneath the waves, lies a mysterious landscape dotted by large holes in the clay, silt, and sand. Decades after its discovery, scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Stanford University think they have figured out what is forming the field's curious pattern of circles.
Jan 13, 2024 · These mysterious depressions are not always, as had previously been thought, the result of methane seeping from beneath the seafloor sediment; rather, they're sometimes the mess left behind by porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and sand eels (Ammodytes marinus) inhabiting the region.
Jul 30, 2022 · What made these strange holes on the seafloor in the Atlantic Ocean? That’s what scientists are trying to figure out, after a remotely operated camera noticed the oddities on July 23, 2022.
The shape of the ocean floor is known as bathymetry, which is caused by plate tectonic shifts. As the plates of the earth move, it creates the features of the ocean floor. The actual “holes” that make up the ocean are believed to just be how the earth’s crust formed.
