This continental slope plunges into depths sunlight cannot reach, through the aphotic zone all the way to the gigantic abyssal plain. Much of the abyssal plain is between 3,000 and 6,000 meters (1 ...

The sites were around 1,000 meters deep beneath Sagami Bay, more than 9,000 meters deep along a trench off the Boso Peninsula, and nearly 6,000 meters deep on an abyssal plain located farther ...

I have a background in annelid taxonomy, systematics, and molecular phylogenetics, with previous work on largely undescribed deep-sea annelid faunas from abyssal plain environments where deep-sea ...