What Lies Beneath

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What you can’t see may astound you. The largest unexplored region of Earth is the ocean. Beneath its churning surface, oceanographers have recently discovered the largest volcano in the world – perhaps in the solar system. Find out what is known – and yet to be discovered – about the marine life of the abyss, and how a fish called the bristlemouth has grabbed the crown for “most numerous vertebrate on Earth” from the chicken. Plus, the menace of America’s Cascadia fault, which has the potential to unleash a devastating magnitude 9 earthquake. Follow Dr. Sager’s voyage back to Tamu Massif in Fall 2015. Guests • Bruce Robison – Deep sea biologist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute • William Sager – Marine geophysicist, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston • Chris Goldfinger - Marine geologist, geophysicist, paleo-seismologist, Oregon State University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Earth, behold its magnificence.
1:08.0	But wait, what you see around you is not the full story.
1:11.0	As a land dweller, it's natural for you to focus on the mountains, valleys,
1:15.0	fields, floor and fauna that characterize our world. But land makes up just a fraction of the planet's surface.
1:22.0	More than 70% of the world is covered in water,
1:25.0	prompting some to equip that a more appropriate name for Earth would be ocean.
1:29.0	We can't see very far beneath all this watery stuff,
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