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Hard Substrate 11.1.2. Soft Substrate 11.2. Abyssal Plain (4,000-6,000m) 11.3. Abyssal Mountain/Hills (4,000-6,000m) 11.4. Hadal/Deep Sea Trench ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Habitats Classification Scheme (Version 3.0)
Hard Substrate 11.1.2. Soft Substrate 11.2. Abyssal Plain (4,000-6,000 m) 11.3. Abyssal Mountain/Hills (4,000-6,000 m) 11.4. Hadal/Deep Sea ...
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HMS Challenger
But after hundreds of soundings taken in oceans around the ... majority of the sea bed consisted of a vast, relatively flat plain just over two miles deep, which they called the abyssal plain. At the conclusion of Challenger’s voyage it was clear ...
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Ocean Geography | Geography of the sea floor
Scientists believe that the continental shelves mark the true outline ... Abyssal Plain – The vast majority of the real estate at the bottom of the sea is a relatively flat expanse of level floor. Called the abyssal ... top layer of sediment found on the surface of the abyssal plains is rich in organic matter that has drifted down ...
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Geological Makeup of Marine Environments - MarineBio.org
Most shelves have a width of approximately 80 km and ... due to the relative abundance of sunlight available in their shallow waters. In contrast, the abyssal plain has been described as a biotic desert. Shelves eventually become a source of fossil fuels ...
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Marine Zones - MarineBio.org
In the abyssal plain, rocks are embedded into the ocean floor due to the lack of supporting heat energy below. This effect results in the flattest and smoothest regions of the world. Abyssal ... Pacific Ocean has the least number of abyssal plains, the direct result of sediments ...
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Richard Nehring • The Coming Global Oil Crisis
And in southern Atwater, you are on the abyssal plain --structures as flat as a pancake with only one or two exceptions (which Shell owns ...
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OSPAR / QSR 2000 Chapter 2 - Geography, hydrography and climate
In the deep ocean basin an abyssal plain extends either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the continental margins consisting of a ...
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WWF - Deep sea ecology: seamounts
Teeming with life Unlike the continental slope and abyssal plain, deep-sea seamounts are densely inhabited. This is due to the currents of nutrient-rich ...
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WWF - Deep sea ecology: sea floor
Earth's surface ... , and cold-water corals, which filter this detritus from the water. Detritus reaching the muddy abyssal plain is eaten by sea urchins, starfish, sea slugs, crabs, shrimp, worms, bottom-feeding fish, and ...
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