abyssal

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“Religion is a carnivorous fish in the abyssal depths,” Le Tellier writes with a heavy dose of his very French condescension.

From Washington Post

"This deep 'abyssal' ocean covers 60% of our planet and we're finding that, under higher temperatures, we can store less carbon in these places," said Prof Murray Roberts from the University of Edinburgh.

From BBC

Seafloor spreading centers often contain magma reservoirs at such relatively shallow depths, but Devey says it was surprising to find magma at this depth under an abyssal plain.

From Science Magazine

The concept, first envisaged in the 1960s, is to extract billions of potato-sized rocks called nodules from the abyssal plains of the oceans several miles deep.

From BBC

Clear aquamarine waters become a deep abyssal blue near the lake’s center, where the bottom is hundreds of feet down.

From National Geographic