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Unraveling the Secrets of the Seabed of Andaman off the Thai coasts

Bangkok – The devastation of Tsunami 2004 is still fresh in the memory. There are a whole lot of lessons to be learnt, of which ‘preparedness in adequate measure’ is considered extremely crucial.// It is better to be safe than sorry, and Thailand has extended this sentiment in evolving suitable str...

The Healing Power of Ancient Minerals Magnesium Oil Now Available Down Under

...l magnesium, incorporating solution-mined, ultra-pure, highly-concentrated, natural magnesium chloride from the 250 million year old Ancient Zechstein seabed into the magnesium oil , gel, and bath flake products that we produce. That's why health care providers from all over the world recommend Ancient Min...

seabed in Biological News

Humans 'damaging the oceans'

...rgy from wind, wave and tide potentially by triggering phytoplankton blooms with fertilisers to absorb more carbon from the atmosphere, or using the seabed to store CO2. However these require far more research to be sure. "It may already be too late to avoid major irreversible changes to many marine ec...

Researchers report 'moderately large' potential for red tide outbreak in Gulf of Maine region

...ult to make a prediction this year because the numbers of cysts we found are not extreme." The cysts for this year's bloom have been dormant in the seabed since late last summer, when they were formed at the end of the Alexandrium bloom. With the onset of spring and its warm temperatures and increased ...

Marine scientists warn of potential for spring, summer red tide outbreak in Gulf of Maine

...ult to make a prediction this year because the numbers of cysts we found are not extreme." The cysts for this year's bloom have been dormant in the seabed since late last summer, when they were formed at the end of the Alexandrium bloom. With the onset of spring and its warm temperatures and increased li...

Australia, India, New Zealand join integrated ocean drilling program

...ralian National University in Canberra, "provides research opportunities to a broad swath of scientists in Australia and New Zealand with expertise in seabed mapping, past climate change, geological hazards, and many aspects of marine geology and biology. IODP membership provides Australian and New Zealand ...

UK robot sub searches for signs of melting 60 km into an Antarctic ice shelf cavity

...tarctic ice sheet, using sonar scanners to map the seabed and the underside of the ice as it juts into the s...sions with the jagged ice overhead and the unknown seabed below, and return to a predefined rendezvous point...m that builds up a 3D map of the ice above and the seabed below.. It also carries precision instruments for ...

Great Lake's sinkholes host exotic ecosystems

...ostile to most familiar, larger forms of life because it lacks oxygen. Groundwater from beneath Lake Huron is dissolving minerals from the defunct seabed and carrying them into the lake to form these exotic, extreme environments, says Bopaiah A. Biddanda of Grand Valley State University, in Muskegon, Mi...

Marine scientists to assess environment before offshore drilling begins in US arctic waters

...rals Management Service (MMS), a team led by University of Texas at Austin marine scientists will assess the biological and chemical conditions on the seabed of the Chukchi Sea before the area opens for offshore oil drilling. The contract from the MMS (U.S. Department of the Interior) brings together sev...

Trees won't stop tsunamis, scientists warn

...ake account of other important variables, like the distance of a village from the shore, the height of the village above sea level or the shape of the seabed in concentrating the tsunami's power." The study by Dr Alexander Kerr of the University of Guam, Dr Baird, Ravi Bhalla and V. Srinivas of the Found...

December 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...wo sequences: basal sand-rich sequence deposited in a basin floor setting, and an overlying younger mud-rich sequence, characterized by densely spaced seabed and sub-seabed distributary slope channel complexes. Earthworms produce granules of intricately zoned calcite Martin R. Lee et al., Departmen...

Coral reefs found growing in cold, deep ocean

...he measurements were made using bottom landers, observatories placed on the seabed from the NIOZ oceanographic research vessel 'Pelagia' and brought back to t... of algae that are a source of food for the corals. Other activities on the seabed that can cause damage to the coral reefs are offshore industries and bottom...

seabed in Biological Technology

New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground

... in action here, even 60 million years later" according to Ass. Prof. Hassenkam. If we can manage to squeeze even a few percent more oil out of the seabed under the North Sea it could be worth millions of kroner for Denmark. Therefore Mrsk Oil and Gas AS on behalf of DUC (Dansk Un-dergrunds Consortium) a...