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Clarion-Clipperton Zone
A vast abyssal plain of the central Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico, thickly covered in polymetallic nodules and the focus of both the dark oxygen research and commercial deep-sea mining interest.
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Theories & Explanations
Clarion-Clipperton Zone was the site of Dark Oxygen Hypothesis.
Places
Clarion-Clipperton Zone is frequently compared to Mariana Trench — Both are heavily studied Pacific abyssal-depth locations at the centre of recent deep-sea science stories.