This article is about the division of different water depths in the ocean. For the railroad device, see water crane. For the unit of measurement, see Inch of water. For the pressurisation device, see water tower.
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A water column is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea, river or lake to the bottom sediment.[1] Descriptively, the deep sea water column is divided into five parts—pelagic zones (from Greek πέλαγος (pélagos), 'open sea')—from the surface to below the floor, as follows: epipelagic, from the surface to 200 meters below the surface; mesopelagic, from 200 to 1000 meters below the surface; bathypelagic, from 1000 to 4000 meters below the surface; abyssopelagic, from 4000 meters below the surface to the level sea floor; hadopelagic, depressions and crevices below the level sea floor.
Deep sea water column
The concept of water column is useful since many aquatic phenomena are explained by the incomplete vertical mixing of waters with discrete chemical, physical or biological characteristics. For example, when studying the metabolism of benthic organisms, it is the specific bottom layer concentration of available chemicals in the water column that is meaningful, rather than the average value of those chemicals throughout the water column.
^Munson, B.H., Axler, R., Hagley C., Host G., Merrick G., Richards C. (2004). "Glossary". Water on the Web. University of Minnesota-Duluth. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
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