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abyssal

[ə′bis·əl]

(geology)

plutonic

(oceanography)

Pertaining to the abyssal zone.

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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

Even the abyssal zones in most oceans are expected to do only marginally better, with temperatures predicted to increase 0.5-1 degrees Celsius (1-2 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

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

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

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

"abyssal thinking," which he defines as a system of visible

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

'The amount of heat accumulated within the lowest 1.5 kilometres in the abyssal Greenland Sea would warm the atmosphere above Europe by 4[degrees]C.'

Deep Greenland Sea warming rapidly

For their study, they analysed temperature data from 1950 to 2010 in the abyssal Greenland Sea, which is an ocean area located just to the south of the Arctic Ocean.

Greenland Sea warming faster than world's oceans

Timothy Steele: A Critical Introduction, and The Violent and Abyssal

At Bar Harbor once, and once ... Innis mor

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