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Sentence Examples The Brother Islands are a solitary outpost, rising like twin towers from the abyssal depths. They are found in all seas, at all latitudes, and from the intertidal to the abyssal zone. These fish live in the abyssal plains, flat expanses of the ocean floor at depths of 10,000 to 20,000 feet. This problem with the sediment trap technique is probably restricted to the continental slope and shelf and will not occur over abyssal depths. The width of the mountain is 4-6 times greater than that of most abyssal hills. Bottom-living marine-invertebrate species are not scattered randomly across the sea floor from the high-tide line to abyssal depths. With the deepest seas in Indonesia and islands jutting up from abyssal depths, this is truly spectacular diving second to none. The solution is entombment in the deep sediments of abyssal plains in the oceans that now cover 71 percent of the planet. I remember hearing that it had no actual bottom, but was just a dark abyssal crack in the planet. The islands are perched at the ragged edge of the continental shelf, right before it plunges more than 2 miles down to the abyssal plain. The incoming sediments beneath the 3 km deep Oman abyssal plain consist of 3 km of Makran sands that are derived from the north. Geologists know it as an area of mysterious abyssal hot spots where sediments may hold millions of dollars worth of precious metals. Oarfish can reach lengths of 60 feet, and live in the abyssal plain, about 6000 feet below the ocean's surface. The near-constant depth of the abyssal sea floor indicates that the lithosphere thickens to roughly 100 km in 70 million years, but then ceases to grow. The abyssal grenadier has a liver that can store enough food to keep it going for 186 days if needs be. Talisei, Bangka and Lembeh are all on the continental shelf, but the marine park's five islands jut from abyssal depths, and the diving is appropriately dramatic. Zone 2 includes the canyon walls, the head of the canyon, and the deep water area of the abyssal plain. The sides of abyssal hills are fault escarpments created by vertical uplift of the sea floor during many events of fault slippage that produce frequent earthquakes. More distal carpets of wacke sand can extend for thousands of square kilometres across oceanic abyssal plains. He often combined his talents, whether it were to soothe the weary souls at the local pub or fell an ice dragon in the depths of the abyssal caverns. Show More Sentences This obviously attracted a better class of nautilus, and a bumper crop was viewed by the team the next day in a wonderful dive hanging over an abyssal drop-off. They are found from intertidal to abyssal zones at least as deep as 5,300 m interstitially in usually the upper few millimeters or centimeters of the sediment layer. In regions of abyssal hills, the shape of the nodules is principally hummocky. Nazaré constitutes one of the final stages for terrestrial sediment transported towards the abyssal plains at the foot of the continental slope. Under the seemingly flat ocean are deep-sea volcanoes, ridges, abyssal trenches and other features which in many cases dwarf their equivalents on land. Deep sea animals will heave themselves up from the abyssal depths, even though it's fatal to them, if they hear a rumor that you will be passing overhead in a boat. Polymetallic nodules form flat horizontal fields at depths from 4,000 and 6,000 m, such as in the Pacific central abyssal basin. Because it is normally found at abyssal depths in the Arctic, diving with a Greenland shark is exceptionally rare. The present report summarizes the results of a joint project of the International Seabed Authority with the J. M. Kaplan Fund to study biodiversity, species range and gene flow in the abyssal Pacific nodule province. The bathymetry of the ocean bottom is marked by fault block ridges, abyssal plains, ocean deeps, and basins. Below the slope is the continental rise, which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain. On average, sea level is higher over mountains and ridges than over abyssal plains and trenches. Typically they consist of a continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, and abyssal plain. Owing in part to their vast size, abyssal plains are believed to be major reservoirs of biodiversity. A rare but important terrain feature found in the abyssal and hadal zones is the hydrothermal vent. Another unusual feature found in the abyssal and hadal zones is the cold seep, sometimes called a cold vent. CeDAMar scientists have demonstrated that some abyssal and hadal species have a cosmopolitan distribution. Many apparently unique taxa of nematode worms have also been recently discovered on abyssal plains. The taxonomic composition of the nematode fauna in the abyssal Pacific is similar, but not identical to, that of the North Atlantic. Probably the most important ecological characteristic of abyssal ecosystems is energy limitation. Show More Sentences In addition to their high biodiversity, abyssal plains are of great current and future commercial and strategic interest. Sediments of certain abyssal plains contain abundant mineral resources, notably polymetallic nodules. Some may extend seawards across continental shelves for hundreds of kilometres before reaching the abyssal plain. It then flows very slowly into the deep abyssal plains of the Atlantic, always in a southerly direction. Turbidites are deposited at the downstream mouths or ends of canyons, building an abyssal fan. Research shows that polymetallic nodule fields are hotspots of abundance and diversity for a highly vulnerable abyssal fauna. They are not generally found at abyssopelagic or hadopelagic depths or on the abyssal plain. Hence, there are no mountain tops one can scale to directly gaze at vast expanses of the abyssal seafloor. Aristotle was surprised that the Mediterranean was deep but hardly imagined it sank to abyssal depths of four thousand meters. It is widely but patchily distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, living on or near the sea bottom over continental slopes and upper and middle abyssal plain rises. It rises approximately 2,000m from the surrounding abyssal plain, reaching a water depth of 690m at the top of the feature. If you bring a stuffed or unstuffed trophy of a crawling hand, cockatrice, basilisk, kurask or abyssal demon, Nomad will then supply you with a pet of that type. Much of the plateau is in water shallower than 2,000 meters, but it is surrounded on three sides by abyssal plains more than 4,500 meters deep. Nutrient-rich currents from the cold southern seas of the Antarctic swirl around volcanic seamounts that rise from vast deep abyssal plains. The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling. The flat abyssal plains of soft silt haven't managed to avoid cable troubles either. Important locations included the southeastern Bering Sea slope and shelf, the eastern Aleutian Islands, and the Gulf of Alaska slope and abyssal plain. It lies in the hadal zone beyond the abyssal zone, and plunges down to a water depth of around 11 kilometers. Unlike the abyssal plains, where life is rare, numerous organisms colonise the continental slope, feeding mainly off the organic matter contained in the sediments covering it. The Gully ecosystem transcends shallow sandy banks, a deep-water canyon environment, and portions of the continental slope and abyssal plain, providing habitat for a wide diversity of species. Show More Sentences More than 65 kilometres long, 15 kilometres wide and two kilometres deep, the Gully's ecosystem includes shallow sandy banks, the deep-water canyon environment, and portions of the continental slope and abyssal plain. Over the decade, census scientists have explored every ocean realm from near-shore waters to the abyssal plains which cover a greater area of the Earth than all its land. Just to the west of the mid-ocean ridge that separates South America's tectonic plate from Africa's, it is the top of a volcano which rises steeply from abyssal plains more than four kilometres below the surface of the ocean. Given that much of the abyssal deep remains unexplored, there are probably many areas which may meet this criterion but cannot be identified with existing knowledge. Together, these groups constitute more than 50 per cent of faunal abundance and species richness in abyssal sediments, and represent a broad range of ecological and life-history types. As a result, the Kaplan project was initiated at the workshop in 2002. The aim of the project was to assess levels of biodiversity, species range and gene flow in abyssal nodule provinces. This cosmopolitan holothurian is characteristic of the abyssal region, having been recorded at depths between 1 800 m and 6 000 m in all explored parts of ocean depths. They can be found in shallow subtidal areas, on the continental shelf, seamounts, to mid-ocean ridges and down to the abyssal plains of the deep ocean. Because of the low densities of the suprabenthic megafauna on the abyssal sea floor, only a small number of species have been described taxonomically. The distinct character of both hydrothermal vents and seamounts results in a level of species endemism that is higher than that found on the abyssal plain. The shallowest instruments will be placed on a rocky pinnacle just 17 metres below the surface, while the deepest node will sit on the abyssal plain, 2.7 kilometres down. International research projects such as the Census of Marine Life are casting new light on the tiniest microbes and largest predators, from individual seamounts to the vast abyssal plains. In the polymetallic nodule areas of the central Eastern Pacific, two species of cosmopolitan distributed mobile epifauna holothurians dominate the abyssal ecosystem. The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps, abyssal plains, trenches, seamounts, basins, plateaus, canyons, and some guyots. Some species have colonized abyssal depths near hydrothermal vents. This community lives in or near marine sedimentary environments, from tidal pools along the foreshore, out to the continental shelf, and then down to the abyssal depths. Many genera are totally indentured to the abyssal zone, such as many cidaroids, most of the genera in the Echinothuriidae family, or the strange genus Dermechinus. Dermechinus horridus, an abyssal species, at thousands of meters deep. The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope followed by the flatter continental rise. Continental shelves teem with life, because of the sunlight available in shallow waters, in contrast to the biotic desert of the oceans' abyssal plain. Show More Sentences The eastern segment of the fault is complex and characterised by a series of seamounts and ridges separating the Tores and Horseshoe abyssal plains. The structure of abyssal ecosystems are strongly influenced by the rate of flux of food to the seafloor and the composition of the material that settles. These faults pervading the oceanic crust, along with their bounding abyssal hills, are the most common tectonic and topographic features on the surface of the Earth. However, no abyssal monoplacophorans have yet been found in the Western Pacific and only one abyssal species has been identified in the Indian Ocean. Within the abyssal and hadal zones, the areas around submarine hydrothermal vents and cold seeps have by far the greatest biomass and biodiversity per unit area. There are at least 12,914 marine species in South Africa, but small bodied species are poorly documented and the abyssal zone is almost completely unexplored. Combined with the sunlight available in shallow waters, the continental shelves teem with life compared to the biotic desert of the oceans' abyssal plain. Intrusive rocks formed at greater depths are called plutonic or abyssal. Another possibility is to look for evidence of spontaneous fission activity in meteoric material and also in hot brines taken from abyssal fractures of the earth's crust. Rare, very large turbidity currents periodically deposit thick sequences of sediment on oceanic abyssal plains, but their return periods span many thousands of years. This feral existence is compounded by the fact our office sits in a part of Belfast that would rival the ocean's abyssal plain for signs of life and home comforts. Located on the opposite side of an expansive abyssal plain from Wally's lair, the ridge hosts a hydrothermal hotbed of volcanic vents called black smokers. Fewer than 10 percent of records of marine life come from abyssal plains between 4,000 and 6,000 meters deep, yet that zone accounts for half the oceans' area. To oceanic type is represented by those parts of the earth crust, which correspond to deep water abyssal plains in planetary relief, mid-ocean ridges and deep water hollows. The work suggests that long stretches of thick oceanic crust called abyssal hills, among the most common landforms on the planet, are the result of worldwide climate changes. Examples from Classical Literature No other mountains in the world are at once so continuously lofty and so near a coast which drops off to abyssal depths. When the tormenting noise-beam struck again, the abyssal monster flung itself about crazily. In their morphological characters they gradually approach the pelagic forms upwards and the abyssal downwards. When Dr. Morton said there were abyssal fish in the lagoon, I knew why they'd be there. A third haunt of life is the floor of the Deep Sea, the abyssal area, which occupies more than a half of the surface of the globe. Some of the limestones are made of Foraminifera, together with Radiolaria, and indicate a subsidence to abyssal depths. Core-takers had been dropped to get samplings of abyssal mud. Find more words! 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