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Not a trench, but more of an "underwater valley", it is estimated to be at most ~19,685 feet (3.7 miles; 6.0 km) in depth. The Laurentian Fan is a product of glaciation and water currents from the
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into the fan, in hopes that the crushing depths and low temperature will destroy the remains. The fan later reappears in the film's 2009 sequel
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Information gathered via a phone interview with Dr. Norm Catto of Memorial University - August 15, 2008
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Towards the end of the 1980s, it was discovered unexpectedly that the fan is the site of
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The Laurentian Fan plays a geographic role in the plotline of the 1990 film
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functioning in the absence of sunlight. These supported organisms such as
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This article about a specific oceanic location or ocean current is a
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The Laurentian Fan appears at the end of the 2007 film
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is an underwater depression off the eastern coast of
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Index

Laurentian Abyss
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Laurentian Channel
Sohm Abyssal Plain
43°40′N 56°10′W / 43.667°N 56.167°W / 43.667; -56.167
hydrothermal vents
ecosystems
vesicomyid
thyasirid
clams
gastropods
epifauna
cold seep
The Hunt for Red October
Transformers
Megatron
Decepticons
Autobot
Jazz
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Abyssal plain
"Laurentian Fan, Atlantic Ocean"
Submarine Fans and Related Turbidite Systems
doi
10.1007/978-1-4612-5114-9_20
ISBN
9781461295709
"Dense biological communities at 3850m on the Laurentian Fan and their relationship to the deposits of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake"

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