Definitions for "SUBMARINE CANYON"
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Continental slope, Continental rise, Abyssal plain, Continental shelf, Shelf, Continental margin, Oceanic ridge, Bathyal zone, Fjord, Seamount, Oceanic trench, Bathypelagic zone, Ocs, Abyssal, Scarp, Escarpment, Fiord, Outer continental shelf, Sea stack, Trench, Neritic zone, Mid-ocean ridge, Sea-floor spreading, Oceanic, Coastal plain, Butte, Cuesta, Headwall, Neritic, Cliff, Backshore, Offshore, Longshore bar, Cuspate foreland, Barrier island, Abyssal zone, Canyon, Inselberg, Bluff, Beach ridge, Ridge, Rift valley, Hogback, Barrier beach, Mesa , Mesopelagic, Pediment, Fault scarp, Guyot
An underwater canyon in the continental shelf.
V-shaped VALLEYS that run across the CONTINENTAL SHELF and down the CONTINENTAL SLOPE. See Figure 8.
A V-shaped trench or valley with steep sides cut into a continental shelf or continental slope.
A relatively narrow, deep depression with steep sides, the bottom of which generally deepens continuously, developed characteristically on some continental slopes.
A steep V-shaped trench along or across a continental shelf or deep ocean floor.
An underwater canyon, carved into the continental shelf. These can be carved by turbidity currents or carved subaerially during a time when sea level was lower.
A narrow, steep canyon that dissects a continental shelf and slope.
A long, narrow, steep-walled undersea valley.
Deep, steep-sided valley in the continental shelf.
A Submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley on the sea floor of the continental slope. Many submarine canyons are found as extensions to large rivers; however there are many that have no such association. Canyons cutting the continental slopes have been found at depths greater than 2 km below sea level.