Living conditions on the deep-sea floor
“DEEP-SEA Pages” from Paul H. Yancey (Whitman College) provides a great deal of information on the deep sea, from mid-water fishes to seeps and vents on the sea floor.
Visit the DEEP-SEA Pages web site
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Transfer of Oxygen and Energy from the Epipelagic Zone to the Deep Sea
Click here for the University of Toronto’s “Turbidity Currents” web page.
Visit the Turbidity Currents web site
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Transfer of Oxygen and Energy from the Epipelagic Zone to the Deep Sea
The story of “whalefalls” and other large nekton sinking into the deep sea from the University of Hawaii and NOAA's Undersea Research Program.
Visit the NOAA Undersea Research Program web site
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Life on Abyssal Plains
NOAA’s Ocean Explorer program maintains this interesting web site for those interested in the deep sea.
Visit the NOAA Ocean Explorer web site
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Vent and Seep Communities
The American Museum of Natural History provides this comprehensive web site devoted to Hydrothermal Vents and their unique fauna.
Visit the Hydrothermal Vents web site
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Vent and Seep Communities
“Cold Seeps in Monterey Canyon” is a web site devoted to the seepage of methane and sulfide-rich fluids from the ocean floor (areas known as “cold seeps”), and the unique community of animals that develops around them.
Visit the Cold Seeps in Monterey Canyon web site
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