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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 ...
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]
For research purposes, the Madeira Abyssal Plain can be divided into three sub-basins. They are a southern sub-basin, which lies at a water depth of about 5,350 meters (17,550 ft), a central sub-basin which lies at a deeper water depth of about 5,440 meters (17,850 ft), and the northern sub-basin which lies at an intermediate water depth of about 5,420 meters (17,780 ft).
The University of Kentucky wants the public’s help with tracking the invasive spotted lanternfly. Here’s how to help.
Porcupine Abyssal Plain. The Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) is located in international waters, adjacent to the Irish continental margin. [1] The PAP lies beyond the Porcupine Bank's deepest point and is southwest of it. It has a muddy seabed, with scattered abyssal hills that covers an area approximately half the size of Europe's landmass. Its ...
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 ...
The plateau covers an area of over 115,000 km 2 (44,000 sq mi) of shallow water, with depths ranging from 8–150 m (30–490 ft), plunging to 4,000 m (13,000 ft) to the abyssal plain at its edges. [1] It is the second-largest oceanic plateau in the Indian Ocean after the Kerguelen Plateau.
Map showing the Gulf of Alaska. The Alaska Plain, also referred to as the Alaskan Plain or Alaskan Abyssal Plain, is an oceanic basin under the Gulf of Alaska.The plain is bordered to the northwest by the Alaskan portion of the Aleutian Trench, to the north and east by the continental shelf off the coast of Alaska and British Columbia, and to the south by two separate lines of seamounts, from ...