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Diagram showing ocean zonation by depth and region, with labeled layers: littoral, sublittoral, bathyal, abyssal, and hadal along the seafloor, and epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, and abyssalpelagic in open water. The littoral zone is at the high-tide mark. Vertical scale marks photic and aphotic zones from surface to 10,000 meters.
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
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abyssal zone: References & Edit History

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Modified title of Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Into the Abyss. Feb 09, 2014
Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Into the Abyss. Sep 26, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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