Arctic Ocean seafloor

E367673

benthic habitat marine environment ocean floor

The Arctic Ocean seafloor is the cold, largely ice-covered ocean bottom at the northernmost part of Earth, characterized by deep basins, continental slopes, and unique polar marine ecosystems.

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Label	Occurrences
Arctic Ocean seafloor canonical	1

Statements (91)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	benthic habitat ⓘ marine environment ⓘ ocean floor ⓘ
affectedBy	changes in primary productivity ⓘ increasing human activities such as shipping ⓘ ocean acidification ⓘ ocean warming ⓘ potential future resource extraction ⓘ sea ice decline ⓘ
averageDepth	approximately 1000 meters on shelves ⓘ
borderedBy	Eurasian continental margin ⓘ North American continental margin ⓘ
characterizedBy	highly stratified water column above ⓘ low primary productivity in winter ⓘ low temperatures ⓘ perennial sea ice cover above large areas ⓘ polar night and midnight sun cycles affecting light availability ⓘ pulsed organic matter input in spring and summer ⓘ seasonal sea ice variability ⓘ
coveredBy	marine sediments ⓘ
ecologicalRole	habitat for ice-associated fauna via pelagic-benthic coupling ⓘ sink for organic carbon from surface waters ⓘ
ecoregion	Arctic benthic ecosystem ⓘ
hasFeature	Alpha Ridge ⓘ Amerasian Basin ⓘ Amundsen Basin ⓘ Canada Basin ⓘ Chukchi Plateau ⓘ Eurasian Basin ⓘ Fram Basin ⓘ Gakkel Ridge ⓘ Lomonosov Ridge ⓘ Makarov Basin ⓘ Alpha–Mendeleev Ridge complex ⓘ surface form: Mendeleev Ridge Nansen Basin ⓘ Yermak Plateau region ⓘ surface form: Yermak Plateau fault scarps ⓘ fracture zones ⓘ glacially derived sediments ⓘ hydrothermal vent fields on Gakkel Ridge ⓘ ice-rafted debris in sediments ⓘ mud volcanoes in some areas ⓘ pockmarks and gas seeps in some regions ⓘ sediment drifts ⓘ sediment-covered volcanic ridges ⓘ submarine permafrost in some shelf areas ⓘ turbidite deposits ⓘ
hasPart	abyssal plains ⓘ continental shelves ⓘ continental slopes ⓘ deep ocean basins ⓘ mid-ocean ridges ⓘ sediment-covered plains ⓘ submarine canyons ⓘ submarine plateaus ⓘ submarine ridges ⓘ
locatedIn	Arctic Ocean ⓘ Northern Hemisphere ⓘ
locatedOn	Earth ⓘ
maximumDepth	over 5000 meters in some basins ⓘ
relevantTo	climate change research ⓘ continental shelf boundary delineation under UNCLOS ⓘ paleoclimate reconstruction from sediments ⓘ
sedimentComposition	biogenic carbonates in some regions ⓘ clays ⓘ organic-rich layers in some basins ⓘ sands on shelves ⓘ silts ⓘ
sedimentSources	biogenic particles ⓘ coastal erosion ⓘ ice-rafted material ⓘ riverine input ⓘ
studiedBy	benthic ecologists ⓘ marine geologists ⓘ oceanographers ⓘ
supports	benthic invertebrate communities ⓘ chemosynthetic communities at hydrothermal vents ⓘ cold-water coral communities in some areas ⓘ demersal fish populations ⓘ microbial mats in some seep areas ⓘ
surveyMethods	multibeam bathymetry ⓘ sediment coring ⓘ seismic reflection profiling ⓘ submersibles and ROVs ⓘ
tectonicSetting	complex microplate and ridge system ⓘ divergent plate boundary at Gakkel Ridge ⓘ passive continental margins in many shelf areas ⓘ
temperatureRange	near freezing ⓘ
waterMassInfluence	Arctic deep water ⓘ Atlantic water inflow ⓘ Pacific water inflow ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

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# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Arctic Ocean seafloor
Description of subject: The Arctic Ocean seafloor is the cold, largely ice-covered ocean bottom at the northernmost part of Earth, characterized by deep basins, continental slopes, and unique polar marine ecosystems.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Beaufort continental slope → partOf → Arctic Ocean seafloor ⓘ