Full fathom 5000 the expedition of HMS Challenger and the strange animals it found in the deep sea Bell, Graham 1949- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History nyu 2022 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations, maps. "The abyssal plain. If you could walk directly into the sea, through the surf and away from the land, you would be likely to descend a gentle slope for two or three days. The water over your head would gradually become deeper, until the surface was about 200m above, say two average city blocks away. About this time the gradient would begin to increase, and soon you are walking quite steeply downhill, with the surface rapidly receding. The sediment beneath your feet will thicken as you approach the edge of the continent, where the soil and debris washed from the land eventually accumulates. At the end of a long day's walk the gradient eases and you stride out onto a prairie that stretches away into the far distance, flat and featureless, or sometimes with rolling hills or even studded with sudden abrupt mountains. The surface is now quite far away, not mere city blocks but the whole downtown core of a large city distant from where you stand. You have arrived at the edge of the abyssal plain. The details of your walk will vary according to where you start out, and might be quite different if you begin in eastern Canada and walk into the Atlantic, say, or in western Canada and walk into the North Pacific. In either case, though, you will eventually reach the abyssal plain, where the last of the land has been left behind and nothing is familiar"-- Graham Bell. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Challenger (Ship : 1858-1878) Challenger (Ship : 1858-1878) Deep-sea animals Voyages around the world History 19th century Faune des grands fonds Voyages autour du monde Histoire 19e siècle Deep-sea animals Voyages around the world 1800-1899 fast G420.C4 B45 2022 910.4/1 Full fathom 5000 Bell, Graham, 1949- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] (DLC) 2021044997 (OCoLC) 1284921510 9780197541593 0197541593 9780197541586 0197541585 9780197541579 2021044998 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/43109 DLC 211020 20260318163532.8 in00005696370 eng