It flows down the sea shelf and out into the abyssal plain much like a river on land.

和陆地上的河流非常相似，它从海底大陆架流向深海平原。

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Featuring these conditions, the abyssal plain is an ideal location to store liquefied carbon dioxide.

由于有这些条件，深海平原是一个储存液态二氧化碳的理想场所。

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With the amount of storage space needed to contain the world's CO2 emissions, the abyssal plain may be only one locale where we keep our carbon dioxide.

考虑到全世界排放出的CO2的巨大体积，也许深海平原是唯一能够让我们储存二氧化碳的场所。

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Boris Worm says that's not surprising given how little we know about the abyssal plain.

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Marine biologist David Black(ph) of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography says the abyssal plain is at once the most common and least studied habitat in the world.

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If Iraq were to fall out of the sky onto a random part of the earth, odds are good that it would plunk into the ocean, sink for at least two miles and then settle into a seemingly endless mudflat called the abyssal plain.

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