Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Deep-sea sediment cores are vital to our understanding of the past and present oceans ... Microfossils are the skeletal remains of marine organisms that either floated in the water column or lived on ...

Marine sediments are extremely diverse and cover the majority of the Earth's surface. By stirring up and churning the ...

They used the Shinkai 6500 manned research submersible and equipment that can dive to great depths to sample seafloor sediments at seven locations in 2019. The sites were around 1,000 meters deep ...

New research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful sediment flows, not methane gas eruptions ...