«L’esiliato rientrava nel paese incorrotto». La terra, il mare, la costa in <i>Mediterraneo</i>, di Eugenio Montale by Sandro Maxia

“…Starting from the belief that ‘Mediterraneo’ alludes, however ephemerally, to the Biblical account of the expulsion from Eden, this reading finds the centre of gravity in the dazzling yet dreamlike recognition represented in the fourth movement, in which a glass city, emerging unexpectedly from the abysses of the sea, rises miraculously before the reader to signify the enduring symbol of the lost, authentic homeland (the ‘unspoiled country’ referring in a new way to Ungaretti’s ‘Girovago’); the indisputable marker of the end of the happy season of childhood. …”
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Southern Ocean Warming by Jean-Baptiste Sallée

“…While the upper 1,000 m of the Southern Ocean within and north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current are warming rapidly, at a rate of 0.1°–0.2°C per decade, the surface sub­polar seas south of this region are not warming or are slightly cooling. However, subpolar abyssal waters are warming at a substantial rate of ~0.05°C per decade due to the formation of bottom waters on the Antarctic continental shelves. …”
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The Prediction, Verification, and Significance of Flank Jets at Mid-Ocean Ridges by J. William Lavelle, Andreas M. Thurnherr, Lauren S. Mullineaux, Dennis J. McGillicuddy Jr., James R. Ledwell

“…Because of their along-ridge orientation and speed, the jets can significantly affect the transport of hydrothermal vent-associated larvae between vent oases along the ridge crest and, possibly, contribute to the mesoscale stirring of the abyssal ocean. Because jet-formation mechanisms involve oscillatory currents, ocean stratification, and topography, the jets are examples of "stratified topographic flow rectification." …”
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New and known Halichoanolaimus de Man, 1886 species (Nematoda: Selachinematidae) from New Zealand’s continental margin by Daniel Leduc

“…The Selachinematidae is a globally distributed family of predatory nematodes found from shallow waters to the abyssal plain. Here, three new species of Halichoanolaimus de Man, 1886 (H. ossilagulus sp. nov., H. funestus sp. nov. and H. pumilus sp. nov.) and one known species (H. ovalis Ditlevsen, 1921) are described from the New Zealand continental margin, thus bringing the total number of selachinematid species recorded from the New Zealand region to 14 and the total number of species of Halichoanolaimus to 26. …”
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Variation in species diversity of deep-water megafauna assemblages in the Caribbean across depth and ecoregions. by Iván Hernández-Ávila, Edlin Guerra-Castro, Carolina Bracho, Martin Rada, Frank A Ocaña, Daniel Pech

“…The observed patterns of diversity were consistent between taxa and their assemblage: Species richness increased from the continental shelf (60-200 m deep) to the slope (200-2000 m deep), followed by a decrease at the continental rise-abyssal zone. We detected marked changes in species composition according to depth ranges. …”
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Spatial Variations in the Degree of Upper‐Mantle Depletion in a Mid‐Ocean Ridge–Transform Fault System by M. Morishige

“…The degree of variation in the predicted depletion is related to the transform fault length especially at a low spreading rate, thereby suggesting that the large scatter in observed abyssal peridotite compositions with slow spreading rates could be partly attributed to the length of the fault.…”
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A Plea for Temperature in Descriptions of the Oceanic Oxygen Status by Peter G. Brewer, Andreas Hofmann

“…The end result is a clear sense that ocean warming in most regions will add stress to the aerobic functioning of marine life, that the oxygen minimum zones appear to be more challenging than ever, and that the deepest abyssal ocean will retain quite favorable aerobic conditions…”
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Formation of "Southern Component Water" in the Late Cretaceous: Evidence from Nd-isotopes by Robinson, SA, Murphy, D, Vance, D, Thomas, D

“…Nd-isotope data obtained from biogenic apatite (fish teeth and bones) are presented from lower bathyal and abyssal sites in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. …”

On the validity of downgradient eddy closures in ocean models by Roberts, M, Marshall, D

“…The correlation between the eddy temperature fluxes and mean temperature gradients is positive only over the upper 2 km and is negative at depth, suggesting that the abyssal temperature fluxes are upgradient. In contrast, the correlations between eddy fluxes and mean gradients of isopycnic thickness and potential vorticity are positive over the most of the fluid column. …”

Taxonomic assessment of deep-sea decapod crustaceans collected from polymetallic nodule fields of the East Pacific Ocean using an integrative approach by Christodoulou, M, De Grave, S, Vink, Α, Martinez Arbizu, P

“…Deep-sea decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected during nine research cruises to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the NE Pacific Ocean and the Peru Basin in the SE Pacific Ocean were studied comprehensively using an integrative taxonomic approach. The abyssal seafloors of both areas are rich in economically interesting polymetallic nodules. …”

Decorrelation scales for Arctic Ocean hydrography – Part I: Amerasian Basin by H. Sumata, F. Kauker, F. Kauker, M. Karcher, M. Karcher, B. Rabe, M.-L. Timmermans, A. Behrendt, R. Gerdes, R. Gerdes, U. Schauer, K. Shimada, K.-H. Cho, T. Kikuchi

“…Assuming spatial and temporal homogeneity of the decorrelation scale in the basin interior (abyssal plain area), we calculate autocorrelations as a function of spatial distance and temporal lag. …”
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Future changes in Antarctic coastal polynyas and bottom water formation simulated by a high-resolution coupled model by Hyein Jeong, Sun-Seon Lee, Hyo-Seok Park, Andrew L. Stewart

“…Abstract Antarctic coastal polynyas produce Dense Shelf Water, a precursor to Antarctic Bottom Waters that supply the global abyssal circulation. Future projections of Dense Shelf Water formation are hindered by unresolved small-scale atmosphere-sea ice-ocean interactions in polynyas. …”
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Meter-Scale Early Diagenesis of Organic Matter Buried Within Deep-Sea Sediments Beneath the Amazon River Plume by Lauren S. Chong, William M. Berelson, James McManus, James McManus, Nick E. Rollins

“…Gravity cores and multi-cores were collected from the Demerara Abyssal plain to examine meter-scale downcore features of early diagenesis in the sediments and relate them to the location of the Amazon River plume in the North Atlantic Ocean. …”
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EFFECT OF PULSE-PERIODIC CORONA DISCHARGE ON VIABILITY OF ESCHERICHIA COLIM17 CELLS IN BIOFILMS by O. V Rybalchenko, O. M Stepanova, O. G Orlova, A. M Astafiev, A. A Kudryavtsev, V. V Kapustina

“…Disturbances of integrity of surface and abyssal structures of biofilms, as well as changes of morphological properties of E. mli M17 cells, characteristic for sub-lethal heat impact, were detected. …”
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Fungal Abundance and Diversity in the Mariana Trench, the Deepest Ecosystem on Earth by Stefano Varrella, Giulio Barone, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Alessio Giorgetti, Hidetaka Nomaki, Takuro Nunoura, Eugenio Rastelli, Michael Tangherlini, Roberto Danovaro, Antonio Dell’Anno

“…We investigated the fungal abundance and diversity in the Challenger Deep (at ca. 11,000 m depth) and the slope of the Mariana Trench in comparison with three sites of the adjacent abyssal plain. Our results indicate that trench sediments are a hotspot of fungal abundance in terms of the 18S rRNA gene copy number. …”
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Vertical zonation of the Siberian Arctic benthos: bathymetric boundaries from coastal shoals to deep-sea Central Arctic by Andrey Vedenin, Sergey Galkin, Alexander N. Mironov, Andrey Gebruk

“…The last one marks the boundary between the bathyal and abyssal faunas. Depths of these boundaries differ from those reported from other Ocean regions; possible explanations of these differences are discussed.…”
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Increasing deep-water overflow from the Pacific into the South China Sea revealed by mooring observations by Chun Zhou, Xin Xiao, Wei Zhao, Jiayan Yang, Xiaodong Huang, Shoude Guan, Zhiwei Zhang, Jiwei Tian

“…Abstract Cold and dense water from the North Pacific Ocean that spills through the Luzon Strait, the only deep conduit between the South China Sea (SCS) and the Pacific Ocean, renews deep-water mass, modulates hydrographic and biogeochemical cycles, and drives abyssal and overturning circulations in the SCS. The variability of this key oceanic process, however, has been poorly studied, mainly due to a lack of sustained observations. …”
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Circulation Driven by Multihump Turbulent Mixing Over a Seamount in the South China Sea by Ruijie Ye, Ruijie Ye, Xiaodong Shang, Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao, Chun Zhou, Chun Zhou, Qingxuan Yang, Qingxuan Yang, Zichen Tian, Yongfeng Qi, Changrong Liang, Xiaodong Huang, Xiaodong Huang, Zhiwei Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Shoude Guan, Shoude Guan, Jiwei Tian, Jiwei Tian

“…These findings regarding the turbulent mixing and three-dimensional circulation around a deep seamount provide support for the further interpretation of the abyssal meridional overturning circulation.…”
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Diagnosing diapycnal mixing from passive tracers by RUAN, XIAOZHOU, FERRARI, RAFFAELE

“…Turbulent mixing across density surfaces transforms abyssal ocean waters into lighter waters and is vital to close the deepest branches of the global overturning circulation. …”
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Diagnosing diapycnal mixing from passive tracers by Ruan, Xiaozhou, Ferrari, Raffaele

“…Turbulent mixing across density surfaces transforms abyssal ocean waters into lighter waters and is vital to close the deepest branches of the global overturning circulation. …”
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