abyssal

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abyssal

[ə′bis·əl]

(geology)

(oceanography)

Pertaining to the abyssal zone.

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The discoveries provide us with a glimpse into how our marine fauna fits into the interconnected abyssal environment worldwide and for the scientists, adds another piece to the puzzle of what affects evolution in the deep sea.

Australia : Scientists are gathering in Hobart this week to examine some of the over 42,000 deep-sea fishes and invertebrates (including the cousin of Mr Blobby - voted World's Ugliest Fish in 2013) collected from Australias eastern abyss

2013), but their integrated importance to abyssal mixing is unknown.

CLIMATE PROCESS TEAM ON INTERNAL WAVE-DRIVEN OCEAN MIXING: The study summarizes recent advances in our understanding of internal wave-driven turbulent mixing in the ocean interior and introduces new parameterizations for global climate ocean models and their climate impacts

In short, the central aim of sociology of absences is to turn impossible objects (the knowledge and experience of the peoples and cultures of the South undermined by the epistemology of blindness of colonial modernity and its abyssal thinking) into possible ones, and thus turn absences into presences.

Can Health Surveillance be emancipatory? An alternative way of thinking about alternatives in times of crisis

Andrew Sweetman, a researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and lead author on the study, stressed the impact on food availability at abyssal depths: "Abyssal ocean environments, which are over 3,000 meters deep, are some of the most food-deprived regions on the planet.

Life-Forms In Deep Ocean Facing Extinction By 2100

Scientists know little about the benthic (deep-sea) species residing in the abyssal plains, but what they're learning shows them to be highly adapted to an extreme environment, where temperatures hover just above freezing and pressures become crushing.

Going deep: cautious steps toward seabed mining

De lo contrario, solo se obtendra un "derivative thinking that will go on reproducing the abyssal lines .

Iluminando el lado oscuro de la modernidad occidental: colonialismo, neocolonialismo y metalepsis en Tambien la lluvia de Iciar Bollain

Now that the deep sea mining of polymetallic nodules on the abyssal plain (4000 to 6000 m depth) of the central Eastern Pacific is to begin in the next few years, serious consideration must be given to the possible effects on the abyssal environment.

Deep sea mining of polymetallic nodules in the central Eastern Pacific and keeping the integrity of the abyssal marine environment

Subsequently, they are most abundant on the continental slopes and organic poor sediment cover on abyssal plain restricts their formation, it says.

Makran coast gas hydrate potential Case for development

Were analyzed not only the nature of the earth surface distribution (land-ocean), but also the quantitative indicators (height/earth surface depth) and also qualitative characteristics (Earth crust type, geo and morphostructural features of continents and abyssal depths).

New data on the antipodal location of the largest landforms of the Earth

It rises approximately 2,000m from the surrounding abyssal plain, reaching a water depth of 690m at the top of the feature.

Marine life in EEZ being studied

go beyond the abyssal thinking, Santos writes that one has to recognize

Coloniality and cognitive justice: reinterpreting formal education for the indigenous peoples in Ecuador/Colonialidad y justicia cognitiva: reinterpretando la educacion formal para los pueblos indigenas del Ecuador

5 kilometres in the abyssal Greenland Sea would warm the atmosphere above Europe by 4[degrees]C.

Deep Greenland Sea warming rapidly

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