As the continental shelf gives way to the ocean depths, trenches and canyons gouge into the Earth's crust. Submarine canyons, underwater erosion, and drainage systems analogous to above-water ...

Altogether, the study challenges conventional understanding of how carbon, which is turned into organic matter by photosynthesis in the sunlit layer of the ocean, gets transported to depth.

A hypothetical picture of Mars 3.6 billion years ago, when an ocean may have covered nearly half the planet. The blue areas show the depth of the ocean filled to the shoreline level of the ancient ...

New tools enable side-by-side comparison of subsea data sets and real-time collaboration on data views and layers in the Absolute Ocean Platform. AUSTIN, Texas, March 27, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE ...

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal, abyssal and hadal. The deepest part of the ocean, the hadal zone, is anywhere deeper than six kilometres. What is the average depth of the ocean?