CeDAMar scientists have demonstrated that some abyssal and hadal species have a cosmopolitan distribution. Within the abyssal and hadal zones, the areas around submarine hydrothermal vents and cold seeps have by far the greatest biomass and biodiversity per unit area. Akimoto; M. Emporia, Kansas : Emporia State University. Thus, water emerging from the hottest parts of some hydrothermal vents, black smokers and submarine volcanoes can be a supercritical fluidpossessing physical properties between those of a gas and those of a liquid.
An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3, metres (9, ft) and 6, metres (20, ft).

Abyssal plain, flat seafloor area at an abyssal depth ( to m [ to feet]), generally adjacent to a continent. These submarine surfaces vary in.
Abyssal plains are remarkably flat, having a slope of less than(or less Abyssal plains are poorly developed or absent adjacent to active continental.
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Bibcode : PNAS. The landmark scientific expedition December — May of the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger yielded a tremendous amount of bathymetric data, much of which has been confirmed by subsequent researchers.
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Future deep-sea waste disposal activities that could be significant by include emplacement of sewage and sludgecarbon-dioxide sequestrationand disposal of dredge spoils.
Willen E. This is an area of the seabed where seepage of hydrogen sulfidemethane and other hydrocarbon -rich fluid occurs, often in the form of a deep-sea brine pool. This discontinuous set of data points was obtained by the simple technique of taking soundings by lowering long lines from the ship to the seabed.
The plain is generally 13, to 20, ft 4, to 6, mextending seaward from the base of a continental slope or from the seaward edge of an oceanic trench to the midocean ridge.
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These submarine surfaces vary in depth only from 10 to cm per kilometre of horizontal distance. Decompression melting occurs when the upper mantle is partially melted into magma as it moves upwards under mid-ocean ridges.
Abyssal plains were not recognized as distinct physiographic features of the sea floor until the late s and, until very recently, none had been studied on a systematic basis. Gad G.
They have thin concentric layers of metals such as iron, cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese. Nature Reviews Microbiology.
Decompression melting occurs when the upper mantle is partially melted into magma as it moves upwards under mid-ocean ridges. Heezen; Marie Tharp; Maurice Ewing