In the abyssal zone, water temperatures are remarkably stable and remain virtually constant throughout the year.
The Lixian-Minxian foreland basin undertook abyssal-bathyal flysch deposition at its earlier evolution stage and continental molasse stage at its later evolution stage.
Featuring these conditions, the abyssal plain is an ideal location to store liquefied carbon dioxide.
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.
Piercing through the abyssal darkness down at 1,240 meters, Alvin’s headlights revealed a 20-meter-long whale skeleton partly buried in sediment.
near-continental abyssal plain
The French navy has built an abyssal bathyscaphe to take three men to the floor of the Marianas Trench.
