Example sentences for: seeps

How can you use “seeps” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Especially at petroleum seeps, this would guarantee a lifelong energy source and help explain the extraordinary longevity of the worms.

  • Individual aggregations at seeps can consist of hundreds to thousands of worms, requiring sulfide fluxes of half a mole per day—and this for more than 200 y [12].

  • Furthermore, how do tubeworms populate new vents, seeps, and other reducing environments emerging from the ever-changing ocean floor—how do their larvae migrate and settle, and what determines the distribution and lifetime of tubeworm populations in the different mid-ocean ridge and continental margin habitats?

  • However, at cold seeps, unlike hydrothermal vents, most of the chemical energy occurs in the form of hydrocarbons.

  • At seeps, geological processes causing fluid and gas seepage can last hundreds to millions of years, whereas hydrothermal vents often have a lifespan on the order of decades.


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