abyssal plain

The very bottom of the ocean is known as the abyssal plain.

In those places, as on the abyssal plains, life is not a dominant condition.

The climate of the abyssal plain during the drought is unknown.

Past the eastern end of the rise, the sea floor drops away to the abyssal plain.

"Ghosts of the Titanic" should sink to the abyssal plains.

In a few more hours the bottom would drop away to an abyssal plain, allowing them to go much deeper.

Abyssal plains are large, almost perfectly flat areas, usually near a continental rise.

Debris tumbles two miles down into the abyssal plain.

There is evidence on the submerged flanks and abyssal plain of earlier failures.

The abyssal plain is covered with soft sludge composed of dead organisms from above.

It has been estimated that well over 10,000 may exist on continental slopes and abyssal plains.

The abyssal plains of the world ocean floors are not nearly as deep as that.

Its members are mainly found on continental slopes and on abyssal plains.

At the southern end, the trough opens into the Porcupine abyssal plain.

The shoal is a protrusion from a 3,500 m deep abyssal plain.

Yet this region was tiny compared to the great abyssal plains of the main oceans, according to Caspar.

Remember how we rode across the abyssal plain?"

In addition to their high biodiversity, abyssal plains are of great current and future commercial and strategic interest.

The deep-sea floor is called the abyssal plain and is usually about 4,000 meters deep.

Continental rise - is below the slope, but landward of the abyssal plains.

Pilkey began his career with the study of abyssal plains on the deep sea floor.

Abyssal plain - Flat or very gently sloping areas of the deep ocean basin floor.

People think that more than 10,000 mud volcanoes may exist on continental slopes and abyssal plains.

It inhabits lower continental slopes and abyssal plains, usually staying near the bottom.

It then flows very slowly into the deep abyssal plains of the Atlantic, always in a southerly direction.