sublittoral zone in a sentence
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- It is believed that juveniles swim into deeper waters in order to avoid predation in the sublittoral zone that they return to when they are adults.
- They are known from the littoral to the sublittoral zone ( extending to the deep hot vents ), and many species are common from coral reefs.
- The tsunami is also thought to be responsible for moving several large boulders from the middle of the sublittoral zone onto the coast between Augusta and Syracuse.
- ""'Annachlamys flabellata " "'is a species of scallop, a sublittoral zone of the continental shelf north of Australia.
- The pelagic ( water column ) environment of the continental shelf constitutes the neritic zone, and the benthic ( sea floor ) province of the shelf is the sublittoral zone.
- In physical oceanography, the sublittoral zone refers to coastal regions with significant tidal flows and energy dissipation, including non-linear flows, internal waves, river outflows and oceanic fronts.
- These limpets are found in the littoral zone and sublittoral zone of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters including ( Tierra del Fuego, Macquarie Island, Kerguelen Island, and Heard and McDonald Islands ).
- In the sublittoral zones of the bay lives the burrowing urchin " Echinocardium cordatum " whose hairy shells regularly turn up on the shores, seagrass " Zostera marina " and oysters " Ostrea edulis ".