Bathypelagic
Depth of water
1,000 - 3,000 m
Circumstances
Middle part of deep sea. No sun light is provided. The temperature of seawater is almost constant at 2 - 3 Celsius. Barhypelagic may be subdivided to upper bathypelagic, middle bathypelagic, and lower bathypelagic.
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