The abyssal depths of the ocean. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The deepest parts of the ocean are known as the abyssal zone. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere] Reference
To be abyssal is to inhabit water below 1,000 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie] Reference
He'd always been that way: high ups and abyssal downs. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Gate]
Mid-ocean ridges occur on the ocean floor in abyssal zones. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere] Reference
Its usual reaction was on the order of abyssal indifference. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
But how can I explain this abyssal darkness, that has seized me?. From Wordnik.com. [wendchymes Diary Entry] Reference
The abyssal zone supports many species of invertebrates and fishes. From Wordnik.com. [Marine biomes] Reference
Scanner shows this abyssal canyon drops to eight thousand in places. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Disruption and a great upweiling commenced on the abyssal plain below. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...]
A faraway rumble down below announced its drainage into an abyssal sump. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Each canyon's thick, fan-shaped sedimentary deposit is called an abyssal fans. From Wordnik.com. [Physiography of the ocean basins] Reference
Something called out with an abyssal shrillness, startling Luke from his sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
'When you catch him he'll be wearing a double-breasted suit. 'to its abyssal low. From Wordnik.com. [There's something wrong with this super-duper Coke machine] Reference
The turbulence fell behind; once more the Olympia droned through an abyssal calm. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
"I will have none of that, Hellort, " rumbled an abyssal voice from down the table. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Elsewhere the mountains had become a wilderness of shadowy heights and abyssal darks. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Her real essence, she said, was in those eyes, swimming through their abyssal expanse. From Wordnik.com. [Family Portrait] Reference
Long-tem change in benthopelagic fish abundance in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Bottom-up control] Reference
Underwater abyssal fans can be compared to terrestrial landforms known as alluvial fans. From Wordnik.com. [Physiography of the Earth's terrestrial surface] Reference
Sometimes the ship seemed to Ravna like a fragile moth ... and sometimes an abyssal fish. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
MORBs and thermobarometrically determined fO2s of abyssal peridotites and MORB glasses, the fO2. From Wordnik.com. [Luskin vs. Science (and Scientific American) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Ocean regions can be separated into four major zones: intertidal, pelagic, benthic and abyssal. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere] Reference
It is characterized by a narrow continental shelf that is bordered by the Tasman abyssal plain. From Wordnik.com. [East-Central Australian Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference
Fifteen months later, in the abyssal depths of the South Pacific, a whale rammed the ship head-on. From Wordnik.com. [2010 March 29 « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
That disagreeable thought was the last he recalled before sliding into a sleep of abyssal dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
For information on the bottom topography (continental shelf, bathyal and abyssal zones), see Morgan, 1989. From Wordnik.com. [Sea of Japan large marine ecosystem] Reference
Her eyes were dazzled by sudden torchlight that alternated with the abyssal dark valleys between buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Oathbreaker]
Like ponds and lakes, the ocean regions are separated into separate zones: intertidal, pelagic, abyssal, and benthic. From Wordnik.com. [Marine biomes] Reference
Leaning out, they saw it shrink to a dot, a pinpoint of brightness before it finally vanished into the abyssal depths. From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
The continental rise is composed of a number abyssal fans that run side-by-side along the edge of the continental slope. From Wordnik.com. [Physiography of the Earth's terrestrial surface] Reference
She could only stare in alarm and astonishment at the abyssal apparition that was making a leisurely approach to her ship. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
Here temperature decreases as depth increases toward the abyssal zone, since light cannot penetrate through the deeper water. From Wordnik.com. [Marine biomes] Reference
Below him, beginning at the very toes of his feet, fell away an abyssal chasm, plummeting all the way to the midnight heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
The Oceans would be filled to the brim with one gigantic column of graded-bedding sediments - no deep trenches, no abyssal plains. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Proud of Wyoming - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Preying one upon another, the abyssal creatures are ultimately dependent upon the slow rain of dead plants and animals from above. From Wordnik.com. [Undersea (historical)] Reference
Which is just another aspect of the abyssal contempt which advertisers and marketing execs have for the public and its communities. From Wordnik.com. [SciFi or SyFy – A Masterclass In Dumbing Down « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS] Reference
The dynamic oceans introduce the long timescales (multicentury to millennia) associated with the equilibration of the abyssal ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models] Reference
As the abyssal ascension gave rise to this luminescent benthic epiphany, more and more of the crew crowded to the port side to gape. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
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