Dimya; recent in abyssal depths and fossil since the Jurassic.
The abyssal forms have been traced to the littoral zone without any perceptible modifications.
The abyssal region, in Scottish lochs, lies, as a rule, deeper than 300 ft.
All are dark in color, brown, blue or violet marking the abyssal species.
The Anacanthini is a small group containing the remarkable pelagic and abyssal macrurids, the fierce barracudas, and the most valuable single family of food fishes in the whole list--the cods.
The Hatteras Abyssal Plain has no known seamounts or sea knolls, in contrast to the Sohm Abyssal Plain and Nares Abyssal Plain.
Iberia Abyssal Plain which lies west of the northern two-thirds of the Iberian Peninsula.
An abyssal plain is probably present in the Newfoundland basin, but no PDR soundings have been obtained in that area.
At the base of the continental slope a gentle gradient continues to the local level of the abyssal floor.
The vast abyssal plain which skirts the African continent west of Cape Verde is named the Cape Verde Abyssal Plain.
Bermuda a small area of abyssal hills lies between the continental rise on the northwest, the Bermuda Rise on the southeast, the Sohm Abyssal Plain on the northeast, and the Hatteras Abyssal Plain on the southwest.
Small depressions a few fathoms deep and 1-2 miles wide were observed in the Biscay Abyssal Plain and may represent mid-ocean canyons, which may possibly connect with Theta Gap (Pl.
The width of the ocean, the width of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the width of the abyssal hills, and the depth at the axis of maximum depth all reach their maximum values for the North Atlantic at this point.
The edge of the Hatteras Abyssal Plain is cut by several mid-ocean canyons 20 fathoms deep and a mile wide which develop a few miles to the west and converge on the abyssal gap.
The explanation that abyssal plains represent portions of the abyssal floor buried beneath sediments transported by turbidity currents, and that the abyssal hills represent this unburied surface, has been offered by Heezen et al.
We have seen that the distinction between abyssal areas, continental oceanic plateaus, and land surfaces has extended through the whole lapse of geological time.
Such constant currents may, however, be recognised both near the bottom of the sea and at various depths, as well as at the surface, and are therefore of just as much significance for the abyssal and zonarial as for the pelagic Radiolaria.
Radiolaria, and this is true of the pelagic as well as of the zonarial and abyssal forms.
Many of these abyssal forms were brought up with the malacoma uninjured, and they show, both when mounted immediately in balsam, and when preserved in alcohol, all the soft parts almost as clearly as fresh preparations of pelagic Radiolaria.
In their morphological characters they gradually approach the pelagic forms upwards and the abyssal downwards.
Within the limits of the same family the size of the pelagic species seems to be on an average greater than that of the related abyssal forms.
Verily, wheresoever it is, it is in the Abyssal World, where there is neither end nor limit.
And in God there is no limit; both near and far off is here all one; and be it in his Love, or be it in his Anger, the abyssal Will of the Spirit is altogether unconfined.
I'm no fish specialist, but those are abyssal fish!
Core-takers had been dropped to get samplings of abyssal mud.
It's unthinkable that abyssalfish should have their swim bladders punctured so they won't explode from release of pressure when they come to the surface.
The abyssal fish mentioned last night would be very queer fish to catch in a lagoon.
When the tormenting noise-beam struck again, the abyssal monster flung itself about crazily.
Morton said there wereabyssal fish in the lagoon, I knew why they'd be there.
The fauna of the abyssal depths where the lack of light makes all vegetation impossible, is largely carnivorous, the weak inhabitants usually devouring the residuum and dead animals that come down from the surface.
None of the lights of the earth can compare with those of this abyssal world.
All the abyssal beings have their organs of sight enormously developed in order to catch even the weakest rays of light.
The plancton is the life that floats in loose clusters or forming cloud-like groups across the neritic surface, even descending to the abyssal depths.
The corpses of the neritic animals and of those that swim between the two waters are the direct or indirect sustenance of the abyssal fauna.
