Article: Ocean Floor

Article: Maine Ocean Floor Has Mud-Trapped Gas
AP Online;  December 28, 2005 ;     553 words ... ... made objects on the ocean floor such as utility lines ... bubbles and plumes of mud, and divers have ... carbonated soda. The ocean floor off the Maine coast ... out of the soupy mud through sandy veins ... burping through the ocean floor with enough violence ...

Article: Chester, Vt., science teacher reaches Pacific Ocean ...
Eagle Times (Claremont, NH);  September 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... said. "It was just like mud season," Rice said when Alvin sank into the ocean floor. "It was a little questionable ... ballast tank. Rice said the mud stuck to the craft, and ... suspended state to stay on the ocean floor. Weights used to bring ...

Article: Life on the ocean floor can help fight disease.
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 21, 1998 ;     624 words ... ... struggle for existence in the mud on the ocean floor could hold the key to ... bacteria found in the mud and soil of exotic locations, including the ocean floor. The genes are to be ... that inhabit the world of mud. Their lifestyles are ...

Article: Ocean floor sediments may trigger off megaquakes ...
The Hindustan Times;  September 12, 2008 ;     657 words ... ... Scientists in the US has found compelling evidence that ocean floor sediments may be the cause of megaquakes, including the earthquake ... the detritus can fill trenches with up to five kilometres of mud. The researchers believe that where the sediment is thickest ...

Article: Ocean floor under deep-water Gulf holds variety of ...
The Oil Daily;  December 3, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... underground "rivers" coursing through wide areas of the seafloor mud where it's almost impossible to set casing. Many companies ... gas -- are frequently found in the soil of the deep-water ocean floor, sometimes pushing up in hills hundreds of feet thick. The ...

Article: Warriors Of The Deep: We were chained to the ocean ...
The People (London, England);  May 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... wrong and were about to be squashed into the foul-smelling mud. My mind flashed back to the briefing four weeks before when ... Excited, we unclipped the harnesses which had tied us to the ocean floor - so we wouldn't float to the surface and be spotted - and ...

Article: Ocean floor becoming an energy source
InTech;  March 1, 2002 ;     646 words ...Amherst, Mass.-Mud found at the bottom of the ocean may soon be able ... sediment battery. Researchers added a layer of common mud to water in the jars and put one graphite electrode in the mud, another in overlying water. The electrical current ...