Beaches are not often associated with South Korea, but Busan delivers with a beautiful coastline of sparkling ocean, dramatic rock formations and golden beaches, despite the ubiquitous high rise developments.
Once you touch the ball and get an open look, it's like throwing a rock in the ocean.
Cold ocean water leaks through the rock, hits the red-hot underground lava and bubbles up to the surface.
Ocean waves broke on the volcanic rock below, and we sat for a long while before heading back.
Scientists have found creatures thriving in places that would poison or cook most life on earth--deep inside rock, under the ocean or in hot springs, places that are extremely salty, or acidic, or bathed in radiation or heavy metals.
Petrobras alone is targeting up to 50 bn barrels of oil 190 miles offshore over a mile below the ocean surface and under three miles of rock.
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The company has had to raise capital in order to invest in pulling that oil out of the ground, thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, and another thousand feet below rock and sand.
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The race then began with a 60-foot rappel down a knob of rock sticking out into the Pacific Ocean.
Melnyk discovered skishing one day by accident, when, fishing from a rock, he was pulled into the ocean by a 40-pound fish.
For a country formed when cooling volcanic rock rose through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the archipelago's story in this tournament is appropriate: once again, Cape Verde is a continental newcomer ready to leave its mark.
The company says surveys have revealed huge numbers of so-called nodules - small lumps of rock rich in valuable metals - lying on the ocean floor south of Hawaii and west of Mexico.
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When the ocean plates sink deep enough, portions are melted by the intense heat generated within the mantle, turning the solid rock into molten magma.
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Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.
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