Some biologists argue that ocean and air currents are responsible for the transport of plant seeds to Hawaii.
一些生物学家称，海洋洋流和空气气流是植物种子传播到夏威夷的原因。
On October 29, 2012, that ocean turned fierce.
2012年10月29日，海水变得汹涌澎湃。
A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts shows that ocean acidification is becoming a very serious problem.
美国马萨诸塞州的伍兹·霍尔海洋学研究所的一项新的研究表明，海洋酸化已经成为一个非常严重的问题。
That's at the heart of why I want to go to europa-to find something living in that ocean we can poke at and use to understand and define life in a much more comprehensive way.
那是我想去木卫二的最大原因，为了找到一些我们能够轻轻戳碰的海洋生物，用更全面的方法来理解和定义生命。
Scientists have long speculated that ocean waves could cause an ice shelf to flex and break, but this is the first time researchers have observed a tsunami having this effect.
长期以来，科学家们推测海浪是可以引起冰架的收缩和瓦解的，但这是研究者们第一次观测到海啸拥有着这样的效果。
Natural disasters such as the earthquake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 have also caused reef loss.
诸如2004年触发印度洋海啸的地震这样的自然灾难也会导致珊瑚礁损失。
You know, I am writing that paper about whales and the path they travel as they swim through the ocean, their migration patterns.
你知道，我正在写那篇关于鲸鱼的论文，它是关于鲸鱼在海洋中游泳的路径以及它们的移动模式。
Most of the volunteers said they drank from plastic bottles and also ate seafood that could include plastic from ocean pollution.
大多数志愿者说，他们用塑料瓶喝水，也吃海鲜，其中可能包含海洋污染带来的塑料。
No very satisfactory account of the mechanism that caused the formation of the ocean basins has yet been given.
对于造成海洋盆地形成的机制，至今还没有给出非常令人满意的解释。
This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.
正是由于这种集声，即使是海洋中相对微弱的声音，尤其是低频声音，也能传播数千英里。
Mangrove root systems have the ability to absorb and well trap sediments and pollutants in water that flows through them before they enter the ocean.
红树林根系有能力吸收并很好地截留水中的沉积物和污染物，这些沉积物和污染物在进入海洋之前流经这些根系。
The river that formed these deposits was actually not far from an ancient ocean known as the Tethys Sea.
形成这些沉积物的河流实际上离一个叫做特提斯海的古代海洋不远。
As we said, these hydrothermal vents are releasing into the ocean depth this intensely hot water that contains a chemical called hydrogen sulfide, and also a gas, carbon dioxide.
正如我们所说，这些热液喷口正在向海洋深处释放这种强热的水，含有一种叫做硫化氢的化学物质，和一种气体，二氧化碳。
But now, places have been found on earth that are in total blackness, such as caves several miles beneath the ocean.
但是现在，已经发现在地球上存在完全黑暗的地方，比如海洋下面几英里的洞穴里。
Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different habitats across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that extends from pole to pole.
像人类一样，虎鲸也在全球范围内开拓了一系列不同的栖息地，占据了地球上的每一个海洋流域，拥有一个从一极延伸到另一极的帝国。
The fossils buried in Pleistocene and earlier ocean sediments were of foraminifera—small, single-celled marine organisms that secrete shells of calcium carbonate, or calcite.
在更新世和更早的海洋沉积物中埋藏的化石生物属于孔虫类生物，它们是微小的单细胞海洋生物，其分泌的硬壳由碳酸钙和方解石组成。
New work suggests that a chunk appears to have broken off and got lodged between the two ocean slabs like a deer swallowed by a python.
最近的研究认为，有一个板块已经折断形成，夹在两个海洋板块之间，就像被蟒蛇吞下的一头鹿。
It's the money that spurs these fishermen to risk a long ocean journey in their flimsy boats.
是金钱驱使这些渔民驾驶单薄的小船冒险出海远航。
When an ice age begins, the continental ice sheets grow, steadily reducing the amount of water evaporated from the ocean that will eventually return to it.
当冰河时代开始时，大陆上的冰原逐渐增大，从海洋中蒸发出来的水逐渐减少，而这些水最终又会回到陆地上。
Within samples collected from the solid substances lying beneath the ice they found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice.
在从冰下的固体物质中收集的样本中，他们发现微型海洋植物的化石，这表明这个区域曾经是开阔的海洋而不是坚硬的冰。
It had been assumed that the ice extended westward from the Alaskan/Canadian mountains to the very edge of the continental shelf, the flat, submerged part of the continent that extends into the ocean.
人们过去曾猜测，冰山从阿拉斯加和加拿大山脉向西延伸到大陆架的最边缘，也就是大陆架扁平的、延伸到海洋中的水下大陆那部分。
They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean, not solid ice.
他们发现了微型海洋植物的化石，表明该地区曾经是开放的海洋，而不是坚固的冰层。
The pollutants in the ponds appear to come from fish that fulmars eat when they're out on the ocean.
池塘中的污染物似乎来自管鼻藿在海洋里吃的鱼类。
Now, places have been found on earth that are in total blackness, such as caves several miles beneath the ocean.
现在，已经发现地球上有完全黑暗的地方，比如海洋下方数英里的洞穴。
At the end of the Cretaceous, the geological record shows that these seaways retreated from the continents back into the major ocean basins.
地质记录显示，在白垩纪末期这些航道从大陆撤退，回到主要的海洋盆地。
This combination of characteristics—long, strong, flexible, resistant to salt water—makes Manila hemp a great material for ropes, especially for ropes that are gonna be used on ocean-going ships.
这种长、结实、柔韧、耐盐水的特性结合，使得马尼拉麻成为很好的绳索材料，特别是用于制作远洋船只的绳索。
Phytoplankton are microscopic plants that grow in the ocean.
浮游植物是生长在海里的微小植物。
Bond hypothesized that the alternating cycles might be evidence of changes in ocean-water circulation and therefore in Earth's climate.
邦德推测，这种交替循环可能是海-水间循环变化的证据，因此也会影响地球的气候。
Bond hypothesized that the alternating cycles might be evidence of changes in ocean-water circulation and therefore in Earth's climate.
邦德推测，这种交替循环可能是海-水间循环变化的证据，因此也会影响地球的气候。
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