CITIES SINKING OR SEA LEVELS RISING? : JAKARTA BEING EFFECTED THE MOST

If you click on the label Sunken Cities, you can read past posts about some of the cities that sunk long ago.  Today's cities are both sinking because the weight of building is compressing soil and being flooded because the sea levels are rising! 

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE : STUDY DETECTS WHICH CITIES WILL SINK

Excerpt: Between rising seas and sinking land, heavily urbanised areas of coast experience a relative sea level increase of about 6mm per year on average.

That is three times more than the global average for relative sea level rise, which stands at 2.1mm per year.

Likewise, land subsidence roughly doubles the absolute sea–level rise of 3.15mm per year, which measures the actual increase in volume and height of the ocean.

Lead researcher Dr Julius Oelsmann, of Technical University of Munich, says that this can 'significantly amplify the effects of climate–driven sea–level rise'.

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 Check out that map.  Is your city on it?

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Excerpt: Countries where relative sea levels are rising the fastest include Thailand, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, China, and Indonesia, where the ocean is getting seven to 10 millimetres higher each year.

The US, the Netherlands, and Italy also experience exceptionally rapid increases, with relative sea levels rising by around four to 5mm per year.

SUNDALAND LANDMASS ON INDONESIAN SEAFLOOR - 140,000 YEAR OLD HUMAN BONES!

ARCHEOLOGY ORG : 160,000 CITY AT BOTTOM OF SEA - HUMAN BONES! 

Wow!

Excerpt:  Dredging operations in the Madura Strait recovered two fragments of 140,000-year-old H. erectus skull among the fossilized remains of 36 vertebrate species. This now-submerged region was once part of a landmass called Sundaland, which connected the Indonesian archipelago to the Asian mainland during the last Ice Age. These fossils—the first that have ever been retrieved from the seafloor—have provided researchers with important new information about H. erectus’ behavior. 

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DAILY MAIL SCIENCE - HIDDEN CITY BUILT 140,000 YEARS AGO

This one has pictures of the human bones!

NEVER BEFORE SEEN DEEP SEA WORM FOUND - SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE (It Looks Like Eyelashes)

 DAILY MAIL : NEW SEA CREATURE DISCOVERED Go to this site to watch the video as the same expedition off the coast of Chili has video'd many other unusual and interesting deep sea creatures!

IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EARTH and MARS THAT IS REVEALED IN THE DEEP SEA?

In this article the answer is YES!

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE : SCIENTISTS UNEARTHEN DEEP CONNECTION BETWEEN EARTH AND MARS : DEEP SEA

Excerpt:  The team drilled 370 holes deep in the oceans across the globe to analyze sediments within the sea floor.

Samples showed cycles of weakening and strengthening, which pointed to vigorous circulation happening below the depths.

Lead author Dr. Adriana Dutkiewicz said she and her team were surprised to uncover signs of the cycles in sediments, marking the first evidence found in geological data.

'There is only one way to explain them: they are linked to cycles in the interactions of Mars and Earth orbiting the sun,' she continued.

WORLDS LARGEST DEEP SEA REEF - MIAMI to CHARLESTON - 6.4 MILLION ACRES : THIS IS AMAZING!

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE : REEF TEEMING WITH UNKNOWN SPECIES  article my Matthew Phelan

Excerpts:  Marine scientists have found and mapped the world's largest known deep-sea coral reef: a hidden ecosystem roughly the size of Vermont teeming with new species.

The discovery was the painstaking product of 23 submersible dives and 31 multibeam sonar mapping surveys, researchers revealed, all in the service of charting the Atlantic ocean's deep-set Blake Plateau.

The plateau's deep-sea or cold-water coral ecosystem stretches nearly 311 miles from Miami, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. And it's east-to-west width reaches passed 68 miles in some regions.

Unlike shallow ocean coral, which feeds itself in part via the photosynthesis of zooxanthellae algae, and can be harmed by the heat of climate change, this D. pertusum coral filter feeds off floating biological particles, like dead cells and microorganisms. 

And, like a pale cave fish, this cold-water coral is an eerie spectral white.

SEA PEN SHAPED LIKE A SAXAPHONE FOUND IN SYDNEY AUSTRALIA HARBOR - IT GLOWS WITH BIOLUMINESCENCE and is COVERED IN SLIME!

 Gotta see those photos!

DAILY MAIL : SEA PEN THAT LOOKS LIKE SAXAPHONE

Excerpt: Australian Museum's marine invertebrates head Professor Shane Ahyong confirmed what type of creature it was.

'They are relatively common in the eastern part of the harbour, well below the tideline, and so are sually only seen by snorkelers and divers,' Dr. Ahyong told Yahoo.

The sea pen in question had notable bumps on the bottom of it and a long stalk, with the way it was laid on cement in the photo closely resembling a saxophone's shape.

PURPLEBACK FLYING SQUID MASSIVE SWIMMING IN RED SEA

 DAILY MAIL = MASSIVE PURPLEBACK SQUID IN RED SEA

These squid usually grow to two feet long but this one was bigger than a human!  Exploring a ship wreck the creature suddenly came into view.  Lots of good photos and video here.