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The Sohm Abyssal Plain is in the North Atlantic and has an area of around 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi). [1] It is located off the coast of the Canadian Maritime provinces and New England in the United States. [2] The region was named for Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm, a German naturalist on the Challenger expedition in the late-19th ...
An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) and 6,000 meters (20,000 ft).Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains are among the flattest, smoothest and least explored regions on Earth. [1]
Algerine Seamount is an undersea mountain in the North Atlantic Ocean, located about 560 km (350 mi) south of Cape Race in the northeastern portion of the Sohm Abyssal Plain. [1] Its summit is more than 2,000 m (6,600 ft) below sea level and rises to a height of over 1,200 m (3,900 ft).
The Laurentian Fan plays a geographic role in the plotline of the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October.; The Laurentian Fan appears at the end of the 2007 film Transformers, with the United States government depicted dumping the remains of Megatron, the other defeated Decepticons, and the deceased Autobot Jazz into the fan, in hopes that the crushing depths and low temperature will destroy the ...
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A map of the NAMOC with its major tributary IMOC. [1]The Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel (NAMOC) is the main body of a turbidity current system of channels and canyons running on the sea bottom from the Hudson Strait, through the Labrador Sea, and ending at the Sohm Abyssal Plain in the Atlantic Ocean.
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