Abyssal Zone - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The abyssal seafloor is also home to a variety of minerals valued by industry Cobalt, nickel, aluminum, and manganese are used in items ranging from cars and wind turbines to phone and laptop batteries Over millions of years, nodules containing relatively high concentrations of these minerals formed on the abyssal plain
Abyssal Zone – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Abyssal Zone Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world's leading non-profit oceanographic research organization Our mission is to explore and understand the ocean and to educate scientists, students, decision-makers, and the public
Ocean Zones - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The abyssal zone, or the abyss, is the seafloor and water column from 3,000 to 6,500 meters (9,842 to 21,325 feet) depth, where sunlight doesn’t penetrate Hadal Zone The region extending from 6,000 to 11,000 meters is called the hadal, or hadalpelagic, zone after Hades, the Greek god of the underworld
Marine Snow and Fecal Pellets - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Until about 130 years ago, scholars believed that no life could exist in the deep ocean The abyss was simply too dark and cold to sustain life The discovery of many animals living in the abyssal environment by Sir Charles Wyville Thompson during HMS Challenger's 1872-1876 circumnavigation stunned the late…
Ocean Trenches - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean trenches are steep depressions exceeding 6,000 meters in depth, where old ocean crust from one tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate Trenches make up the world's hadal zone
Mid-ocean Ridges - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Abyssal Zone; Hadal Zone; Ocean-Atmosphere Connection; Seafloor Below Hydrothermal Vents Godzilla, Sasquatch, Homer Simpson; Mid-ocean Ridges Explore a Mid-Ocean Ridge Valley; Natural Oil Seeps; Seamounts; Underwater Volcanoes Lava Flows; How Old is that Volcano? Ocean Trenches
Hydrothermal Vents - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Abyssal Zone; Hadal Zone; Ocean-Atmosphere Connection; Seafloor Below Hydrothermal Vents Godzilla, Sasquatch, Homer Simpson; Mid-ocean Ridges Explore a Mid-Ocean Ridge Valley; Natural Oil Seeps; Seamounts; Underwater Volcanoes Lava Flows; How Old is that Volcano? Ocean Trenches
An abyssal recipe - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution An abyssal recipe Kurt L Polzin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS#21, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA article info Article history: Received 17 September 2008 Received in revised form 21 May 2009 Accepted 24 July 2009 Available online 4 August 2009 Keywords: Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes in oceanography Fine structure and