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In the deep ocean, marine snow (also known as "ocean dandruff") is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column.It is a significant means of exporting energy from the light-rich photic zone to the aphotic zone below, which is referred to as the biological pump.
For the deep-sea ecosystem, the death of a whale is the most important event. A dead whale can bring hundreds of tons of organic matter to the bottom. Whale fall community progresses through three stages: [32] Mobile scavenger stage: Big and mobile deep-sea animals arrive at the site almost immediately after whales fall on the bottom.
Marine snow is organic material that has fallen from upper waters into the deep sea. [ 7 ] In 1960, the bathyscaphe Trieste descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench near Guam , at 10,911 m (35,797 ft; 6.780 mi), the deepest known spot in any ocean.
This time around, additional heavy sea-effect snow could continue into early next week in Japan, adding to the prolific totals. And here’s a fun fact from weather historian Christopher Burt: ...
Snow measured in feet is blanketing parts of Japan this week, with snowfall rates among the highest on record. This is due, in part, to a phenomenon called sea-effect snow. What happened ...
Deep-sea Discovery: Ancient Coral May Have Been The First Glow-in-the-dark Creatures, Study Finds. A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences ...
Previously, benthic oceanographers assumed that vent organisms were dependent on marine snow, as deep-sea organisms are. This would leave them dependent on plant life and thus the sun. Some hydrothermal vent organisms do consume this "rain", but with only such a system, life forms would be sparse.
The total snow and sleet forecast for the area that includes San Antonio, 80 miles to the south, ranged from a dusting up to 1 1/2 inches − with hazardous ice accumulations of one-tenth of an inch.