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Abyssal Plains

Abyssal Plains is a geomorphic component of the deep-ocean floor, distinguished as extensive, flat, and sediment-covered regions of the abyssal zone that originate from the smoothing of the oceanic crust by the accumulation of fine-grained pelagic and turbiditic deposits.

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Spatial Variability of Turbulent Mixing in the Abyssal Ocean

Kurt L. Polzin, John M. Toole, James R. Ledwell et al. · Science · 1997 · 1.1K citations

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Evidence for enhanced mixing over rough topography in the abyssal ocean

James R. Ledwell, Ellyn T. Montgomery, Kurt L. Polzin et al. · Nature · 2000 · 713 citations

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Deep structure of the ocean‐continent transition in the southern Iberia Abyssal Plain from seismic refraction profiles: The IAM‐9 transect at 40°20′N

S. M. Dean, T. A. Minshull, R. B. Whitmarsh et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2000 · 308 citations · Full text

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The Storegga slide

Tom Bugge, R.H. Belderson, N. H. Kenyon · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1988 · 295 citations

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Deep Sequencing of Subseafloor Eukaryotic rRNA Reveals Active Fungi across Marine Subsurface Provinces

William D. Orsi, Jennifer F. Biddle, Virginia P. Edgcomb · PLoS ONE · 2013 · 262 citations · Full text

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    Brian J. Bett

    National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 1K citations

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    Craig R. Smith

    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

    10 publications · 740 citations

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    K.L. Smith

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States

    9 publications · 590 citations

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    Jennifer M. Durden

    National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 388 citations

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    Henry A. Ruhl

    National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 359 citations

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  1. National Oceanography Centre

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    23 h-index

    99 publications

    6.7K citations

  2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    18 h-index

    40 publications

    2K citations

  3. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    17 h-index

    39 publications

    10.8K citations

  4. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    45 publications

    2.1K citations

  5. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

    Sparkill, United States

    14 h-index

    33 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    13 h-index

    23 publications

    1K citations

  7. Senckenberg am Meer

    Wilhelmshaven, Germany

    12 h-index

    20 publications

    1.3K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    11 h-index

    22 publications

    802 citations

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  2. Marine Geology

    23 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 14 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. Geological Society of America Bulletin

    13 publications · 555 citations

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