What is "midocean"

Usage examples of "midocean".

But the lagoon could comfortably hold seven hundred ships-destroyer tenders, submarine tenders, seaplane tenders, tankers, repair ships, ammo ships, supply ships, floating dry docks - so that Ulithi was in effect a secure base in midocean for the warships needing those services, and a rest area for battle-weary seamen who could sleep there all night with no GQs at dusk and dawn, get some mail, see movies, and have a beer and a steak and a swim on Mogmog.

That great ocean, born as a crack in Pangaea over two hundred million years ago, was continuing to widen as new seabed erupted endlessly along the line of the midocean ridge.

Perhaps this alternation of shallow-water and deeper-water sediments reflects global changes in sea level, as huge underwater eruptions spewed forth enormous quantities of lava along the volcanic midocean ridges, decreasing the volume of the ocean basins and displacing seawater onto the low-lying areas of the land.

Where ocean warm-surface-cold-bottom conditions prevailed, as in the midocean tropics, there were obviously no customers for electricity, or anything else.

The unmanned iceberg would run aground or drift away in the vagrant tropical currents to its quick destruction somewhere in the warm midocean waters, far from the anchors on the continental slope that kept it moving on course.

A collection of upthrusting rocks from the midocean ridge, scarcely a quarter of a mile across, St.

We might have ourselves dropped by parachute to a ship in midocean and get the captain to oblige.

British radioed in midocean, querying whether or not Doc Savage was aboard, they were informed Doc and his men were on the passenger list.

Majuro fourteen miles to the southeast, and for a full month the Big E remained in or close to mat midocean anchorage.

Americans for whom she had gone to General Quarters so many times, and who now were free to produce other men of the caliber of those lost ones, men who might now not have to die in midocean 4,000 miles from home, who instead could turn their skill and courage toward some small facet of the colossal task of making and keeping this beautiful and varied earth also a fit and decent place in which free, civilized men can live.

Leslie grinned internally at the image of holo-Richard hovering in midocean like some craggy Madonna of the Fishes, clownfish and Moorish idols nibbling through the seaweedy strands of his hair.

I didn't realize that the San Andreas Fault is actually the place where a midocean ridge is being overridden by a continent.