 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1881 - 770 pages
...exist at great depths because of the great pressure to which they were subjected. Mr. Moseley says ' "the pressure exerted by the water at great depths...roughly to a ton weight on the square inch for every looo fathoms of depth ; so that, at the depth of 2500 fathoms, there is a pressure of two tons and... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1881 - 656 pages
...exist at great depths because of the great pressure to which they were subjected. Mr. Moseley says ' "the pressure exerted by the water at great depths...roughly to a ton weight on the square inch for every IOOO fathoms of depth ; so that, at the depth of 2500 fathoms, there is a pressure of two tors and... | |
 | Dixon Kemp - Boatbuilding - 1882 - 786 pages
...2000 fathoms and upward the temperature of the water is never many degrees above the freezing point. The conditions under which life exists in the deep...exerted by the water at great depths is enormous, amounting roughly to a ton weight on the square inch for every 1500 fathoms of depth. Sir C. Wyville... | |
 | Liverpool Biological Society - Biology - 1917 - 140 pages
...arrival of the net at the surface."* * " Notes of a Naturalist on the ' Challenger,' '' p. 501. • The conditions under which life exists in the deep sea are very remarkable. The pressure due to the weight of water is enormous, and amounts roughly to a ton on the square inch for every thousand... | |
 | Sir William Abbott Herdman - Science - 1923 - 430 pages
...enthusiasm never flagged, and I do not think he ever missed the arrival of the net at the surface." 1 The conditions under which life exists in the deep sea are very remarkable. The pressure due to the weight of water / is enormous, and amounts roughly to a ton on the square inch for every... | |
 | Henry Nottidge Moseley - Challenger Expedition - 1892 - 582 pages
...get weary of deep-sea dredging. Sir Wyville Thomson's enthusiasm never flagged, and I do not think he ever missed the arrival of the net at the surface....2,500 fathoms there is a pressure of two tons and a half per square inch of surface, which may be contrasted with the 15 pounds per square inch pressure... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll, William Cornelius Wyckoff - Science - 1878 - 422 pages
...fathoms and upwards, the temperature of the water is never many degrees abóte the freezing point. The conditions under which life exists in the deep...exerted by the water at great depths is enormous, amounting roughly to a ton weight on the square inch for every i, 500 fathoms of depth. Sir C. Wyville... | |
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Shrimp probably inhabited a region lying at some distance above the bottom. The sledge irons of the trawl-net were carefully examined as evidence in the matter, to test whether they had been polished by friction on the bottom or no, or whether they had... 