Mesopelagic
Depth of water
200 - 1,000 m
Circumstances
Upper part of deep sea. Almost no sun light is provided. The temperature of seawater changed abruptly from 25 - 30 Celsius to 10 Celsius.
Sedimentary systems
Components of deep sea systems
- Submarine canyon
- Submarine channel
- Submarine levee
- Submarine landslide
- Deep-sea tsunami
- Oceanic ridge
- Pelagic
- Hemipelagic
- Seamount
- Epipelagic
- Mesopelagic
- Bathypelagic
- Abyssopelagic
- Hadopelagic