| 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. |
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| The incoming sediments beneath the 3 km deep Oman abyssal plain consist of 3 km of Makran sands that are derived from the north. |
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| Oarfish can reach lengths of 60 feet, and live in the abyssal plain, about 6000 feet below the ocean's surface. |
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| The sea basin is a northward-tilting abyssal plain unmarked by distinctive escarpments or trenches. |
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| Zone 2 includes the canyon walls, the head of the canyon, and the deep water area of the abyssal plain. |
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| Deep-water abyssal plain limestones are quite restricted in volume and age in the geologic record for a number of reasons. |
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| Second, pelagic calcareous oozes are the obvious modern analogues of ancient abyssal plain calcilutites. |
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| To the east of the Somali coast, the Somali Basin forms another large abyssal plain. |
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| For many groups of organisms such as bottom-dwelling invertebrates on continental slopes or the abyssal plain, we have little idea of the numbers of living species. |
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| 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. |
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| Important locations included the southeastern Bering Sea slope and shelf, the eastern Aleutian Islands, and the Gulf of Alaska slope and abyssal plain. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Beyond the continental slope much of the seabed is an abyssal plain. |
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| Below the slope is the continental rise, which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain. |
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| Typically they consist of a continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, and abyssal plain. |
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| Some may extend seawards across continental shelves for hundreds of kilometres before reaching the abyssal plain. |
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| They are not generally found at abyssopelagic or hadopelagic depths or on the abyssal plain. |
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| It rises approximately 2,000m from the surrounding abyssal plain, reaching a water depth of 690m at the top of the feature. |
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| Combined with the sunlight available in shallow waters, the continental shelves teem with life compared to the biotic desert of the oceans' abyssal plain. |
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| The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope followed by the flatter continental rise. |
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| Continental shelves teem with life, because of the sunlight available in shallow waters, in contrast to the biotic desert of the oceans' abyssal plain. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| This plain, south of Newfoundland, is now known as the Sohm Abyssal Plain. |
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