How To Use Bathyal In A Sentence

Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.
Wherever the Valle Group is exposed, it has been interpreted as a clastic, marine, sedimentary sequence that includes turbidite, submarine-fan complexes deposited in water depths ranging from outer neritic to bathyal.
Bathyal is defined as pertaining to the ocean bottom between the sublittoral and abyssal zones - from depths of approximately 200 to 400 m.
Historically they have radiated (divided into new species) in bathyal habitats (bottom-dwelling on the continental slope between 200 and 2000 m in depth) and cool-water coastal areas.
During the depositional period of this sequence, there were three paleocontinents, two straits and a bathyal slope in the southeast part of the Tarim basin.

The thickness of the shallow marine formations is up to 150 m, and the bathyal flysch is up to 4 km thick.
In contrast, the many shale layers seem to be poor in macrofossils largely because they were deposited at depth below the photic zone (upper bathyal depth) as indicated by benthic foraminifera.
After a short erosion interval, rapid subsidence started to produce contemporaneous neritic limestone and shallow bathyal marl again.
It occurs in mudstones that were deposited at outer shelf or bathyal depths and in flysch facies that were deposited at bathyal depths or greater.
Their depositional environment varies from outer neritic to upper or middle bathyal.
During the depositional period of this sequence, there were three paleocontinents, two straits and a bathyal slope in the southeast part of the Tarim basin.