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Scientists have identified an anomaly linked to the rise in beryllium-10 levels in ocean sediments on the Pacific Ocean floor ...

Scientists have discovered an anomaly in the increased levels of beryllium-10 found in ocean sediments on the Pacific Ocean ...

Genetic material recovered from sediment beneath the sea floor reveals ancient species ... the abyssal plains in the middle of the South Atlantic, a barren patch of ocean floor 5,000 meters below the ...

It is the largest collection in the U.S. (outside that of the Ocean Drilling Program) of sediments from the Pacific Ocean and ... that either floated in the water column or lived on the sea floor. The ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The heavy ocean floor north of India acted like a giant ... almost entirely closed over the intervening ocean, squeezing the sediments on the ocean foor. Since the sediments were lightweight ...