University of Hawaii Manoa Campus: 'Revolutionary' Deep-Sea Transition Zone Discovery Could Inform Mining Policy
August 10, 2023
August 10, 2023
MANOA, Hawaii, Aug. 10 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release:
A biogeographical boundary--a transition zone that divides soft-bodied and shelled creatures--was discovered at the bottom of the North Pacific Ocean, according to a study co-authored by Craig Smith, oceanographer at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
This limit separates two distinct biological areas across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast abyssal plain region ex . . .
A biogeographical boundary--a transition zone that divides soft-bodied and shelled creatures--was discovered at the bottom of the North Pacific Ocean, according to a study co-authored by Craig Smith, oceanographer at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
This limit separates two distinct biological areas across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast abyssal plain region ex . . .