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Bathyal

//ˈbæθi.əl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to the ocean bottom, between the sublittoral and abyssal zones, at a depth of between 200 and 2000 metres not-comparable

    "Accessory benthic foraminiferal events reported by Berggren and Miller (1989) to occur in the late Eocene are the migrations into the bathyal realm from the neritic realm of planulinids and siphoninids."

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope) wordnet

Etymology

From bathy- + -al.

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