Open AccessUpload from a seafloor vent
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/00eo00283
Subject(s) - seafloor spreading , oceanography , sediment , upload , dredging , environmental science , geology , paleontology , computer science , operating system
There are some places in the oceans where sediment may accumulate at the rate of one millimeter in a thousand years, or where important geological processes take place at the rate at which fingernails grow, said marine geophysicist Steve Hammond. That's snoozeville, said Hammond, leader of the ocean environment research division at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).