Abyssal meaning

Adjective: abyssal

Pronunciation:(u’bi-sul)

Abyssal meaning:

• Relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters

• Resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable

Synonyms: abysmal, unfathomable

Quotations:

1. Anonymous – In the family Cheiroteuthidae many of the species occur at abyssal depths of the ocean, and exhibit curious modifications of structure.
2. Anonymous – He whispered in his original language, the one he rarely used, so glottal, abyssal.
3. Anonymous – They have a well-developed proboscis which is used as a suctorial organ; some are abyssal, but the majority are either commensals or parasites of Echinoderms.
4. Charlotte Brewster – None of the lights of the earth can compare with those of this abyssal world.
5. Anonymous – The known deposits all point to shallow waters of epicontinental seas; no abyssal formations have been recognized.
6. Anonymous – They inhabit chiefly the northern seas, but many abyssal forms occur between the tropics and in the southern parts of the Atlantic and Pacific.
7. Jakob – Verily, wheresoever it is, it is in the abyssal world, where there is neither end nor limit.

Sample sentences:

1. A new paper describes the expert-driven systematic conservation planning process applied to inform science-based recommendations to the International Seabed Authority for a system of deep-sea marine protected areas to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem function in an abyssal Pacific region targeted for nodule mining.
2. Our data suggest that respired carbon was removed from the abyssal Southern Ocean during the Northern Hemisphere cold phases of the deglaciation, when atmospheric CO2 concentration increased rapidly, reflecting at least in part a combination of dwindling iron fertilization by dust and enhanced deep ocean ventilation.
3. Here, the authors show that the Indo-Pacific heat redistribution holds the key while the abyssal heat uptake in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans primarily reflects the downward penetration of anthropogenic heat.
4. Furthermore, our records show that the observed co-variation between atmospheric CO2 concentration and abyssal Southern Ocean oxygenation was maintained throughout most of the past 80,000 years.
5. In the Southern Ocean, deep-water masses of the world ocean up well to the surface and subsequently sink to intermediate and abyssal depths in two overturning cells.
6. Scientists analyzed temperature data from 1950 to 2010 in the abyssal Greenland Sea, which is an ocean area located just to the south of the Arctic Ocean.
7. Observational evidence relates changes in abyssal mixing a key influence on the lower cell to oceanic eddy variability.
8. Deep abyssal clay sediments in organic-poor regions of the ocean present challenging conditions for life.
9. The abyssal deeps have two floors or roofs.
10. 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.
11. The plankton is the life that floats in loose clusters or forming cloud-like groups across the neritic surface, even descending to the abyssal depths.