Sentence examples for deep sea being from inspiring English sources

Turbiditic systems appear to be intermediate between other energy rich habitats sustaining chemosynthesis in the deep sea, being locally less stable in terms of energy supply than cold seeps, limiting the number of cold-seep specialists able to colonize, but constituting a longer lived habitat than food falls.

"We often talk about the deep sea being an unknown environment, and this discovery points out [how true that is]," says Kenneth Halanych, a marine biologist at Auburn University in Alabama.

Despite the number of kingdoms in the deep sea being smaller than in coastal systems because of the absence of photoautotrophic taxa, there is no deep-sea area or station where the total biodiversity (i.e., the biodiversity of all forms of life ranging from Bacteria and Archaea to Megafauna) has been censused.

The deep sea is characterized by its long-term stability.

The deep sea is the largest biome of the biosphere.

The deep sea is much harder to explore than outer space.

Most of the deep sea is subject to the even frailer rule of international law.

In the '60s when I was growing up, the deep sea was where we threw trash.

The deep sea is an extremely diverse habitat, which is now threatened by human activity.

"We want our visitors to realize the deep sea is a museum," said Dr. Ballard.

Before the Challenger expeditions, the deep sea was seen as the dead zone; black, depthless, purgatorial.