As the ocean floor plate begins to sink down into the mantle, it would drag or pull the entire plate along with it.
当海洋底部开始下沉到地幔中，它会同时将整个海底板块拖拽下去。
The rock material flows up from Earth's interior here, at the split, which forces the two sides of the ocean floor to spread apart, to make room for the new rock material.
岩石物质从地球内部的裂缝处向上流动，迫使海底向两边分开，为新的岩石物质腾出空间。
It all began in 1977 with the exploration of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.
一切始于1977年的一次海底上深海热泉的探索。
Even humpback whales prefer to use the right side of their jaws to scrape sand eels from the ocean floor.
即使是座头鲸也喜欢用它们的右颚从海底刮沙鳗鱼。
An air bubble ascending from the ocean floor contorts and twists into a semicircle as a wave breaks in the background.
当波浪在背景中破碎时，从海底升起的气泡扭曲成半圆形。
An air bubble ascending from the ocean floor contorts and twists into a semicircle as a wave breaks in the background.
当波浪在背景中破碎时，从海底升起的气泡扭曲成半圆形。
They can be up to one and a half meters long, and these tubes are attached to the ocean floor, pretty weird looking, huh?
它们最多可以有1.5米长，而且这些管子连接在海底，看起来很奇怪，是吧？
Well over half of those ships were carrying cargo stored in large ceramic jars, many of which were preserved largely intact on the ocean floor.
这些船只中有一半以上装载着储存在大型陶瓷罐子里的货物，其中许多罐子被完好无损地保存在海底。
If an ocean floor tectonic plate meets the edge of a continent and they push against each other, the heavier one sinks down and goes under the other one.
如果一个海底构造板块与大陆边缘接触并相互挤压，较重的板块下沉到另一个的下面。
If that happens, slab pull could draw the oceanic crust under the continent, actually causing the Americas to move eastward toward Europe and the ocean floor to get smaller.
若果真如此，岩板拉力会将海洋地壳拖拽到大陆之下，实际上会使美洲大陆向东移动靠近欧洲，海床也会缩小。
These vents on the ocean floor, they release this incredibly hot water, 3 to 4 times the temperature that you boil water at, because this water has been heated deep within the Earth.
海底的这些喷口会释放出温度高得难以置信的热水，温度比开水还要高3到4倍，因为这些水是在地球深处加热的。
But when it wants to blend in with its environment to hide from its enemies, it can take on the color of its immediate surroundings: the ocean floor, a rock, a piece of coral, whatever.
但当它想要融入环境以躲避敌人时，它就会呈现出周围环境的颜色：海底、岩石、珊瑚等等。
When a whale dies, it quickly drops to the bottom of the ocean floor.
鲸鱼死亡后，很快就会沉入海底。
More and more of this plate, the ocean floor, would go down under the continent into the mantle.
越来越多的这种板块，即海床，将在大陆下方进入地幔。
Ocean scientists study the chemical make-up of the ocean, weather patterns, the geography of the ocean floor, and many other areas.
海洋科学家研究海洋的化学成分、气候模式、海底地貌以及许多其他领域。
She got to work building something that could help solve the problem: a remote-operated vehicle, or ROV. Her ROV can move through water and find plastics on the ocean floor.
她开始着手构建一些装置来帮助解决这个问题：遥控潜水器。这个装置能够在水里移动，发现位于海底的塑料。
When Congress returns they should remove this restriction so we can get these vast oil resources from the ocean floor to your gas tank.
当国会复会时，他们应该取消这个条款。这样我们就可以把大洋底下的丰富石油资源转化成你油箱里的汽油了。
In some, a destructive fishing practice called bottom trawling, which scours life from the ocean floor, is permitted.
有些地区对海洋底层生物掠夺性捕捞的破坏性底层拖网式捕捞事实上是允许的。
These microscopic impurities, derived from rock and from organic material in creatures that once lived on an ancient ocean floor, have undergone an amazing journey.
这些来源于岩石和曾经生活在远古海洋板块的的生物中的有机物的微观杂质，已经经历了一个令人惊异的旅程。
In one, involving salmon, some fish froze to death and piscine faeces turned the nearby ocean floor into a wasteland.
原因之一是，包括大马哈鱼在内，一些鱼被冻死，加上鱼的排泄物使得附近的海洋洋底成为无法生息的荒原。
The discovery that carbon from the ocean floor can be mixed so deep within the mantle raises the larger question of how much of the ocean floor and sediments are carried to the deep mantle.
来自海洋板块中碳元素混杂在如此之深的地幔中这一现象的发现使人们产生更大的疑问，到底有多少海洋板块和沉积物被带到深层地幔中。
Scientists at Oregon State University have identified vast reservoirs of water beneath the ocean floor.
俄勒冈州立大学的科学家已经确定，在海底下面储存着大量的水。
These jellies are almost transparent: the best way to spot them is to look for their shadows on the ocean floor.
这些水母几乎是透明的：发现它们最好的方法是寻找海床上的阴影。
Many oceanographic surveys have already discovered plumes of methane rising from the ocean floor, particularly in the Arctic, Elliott notes.
埃利奥特提示说，多次海洋调查均已发现一缕缕甲烷从海底不断涌上，特别是在北极。
Ship-based sonar would help, but ship-based instruments have mapped only about 10 percent of the ocean floor so far.
尽管船舶声纳技术也用得上，但是迄今为止利用船舶器械仅仅绘制出海底地貌的10%。
Photos within the magazine reveal the natural contrasts of Hawaii's Big Island, built over eons by lava flows welling up from the ocean floor.
杂志内的照片展示了夏威夷大岛互为参照的自然景观。岛屿建于海洋底部万古流淌的熔岩流之上。
A giant containment dome that BP will place on the ocean floor to contain the spill should begin capturing oil on Monday, an executive said.
一名任务执行官员称，英国石油公司将要放置在海底的大型控制漏油设备将会在下周一开始运行。
A lizardfish captures a meal on the sandy ocean floor of temperate Suruga Bay.
一条蜥鱼在温和的骏河湾多沙的海底捕获一餐。
Shortly thereafter, oil began leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from ruptured pipes deep on the ocean floor.
事故发生后不久，原油开始自深入海床的破裂输送管道中泄露出来。
The vessel spent barely 20 minutes on the ocean floor, and only unmanned vessels have been back since.
潜艇在海底只待了不到20分钟，在那之后，人们只用无人驾驶的潜艇再次探测过那里。
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