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continental slope

NOUN
  1. the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone

How To Use continental slope In A Sentence

  • Most of the streams normally follow the continental slope toward the sea across the various provinces and are of the kind called consequent streams.
  • 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.
  • The viperfish may be expected on the offshore banks as a stray at any time, for several have been taken off the continental slope abreast of southern New England in deep water.
  • This problem with the sediment trap technique is probably restricted to the continental slope and shelf and will not occur over abyssal depths.
  • This paper illustrates good prospective to seek gas hydrate in the Continental Slope and Okinawa Trough in the East China Sea, according to the research of 2D seismic profiles surveyed by our bureau.
  • Thus an undercurrent, called the Western Boundary Undercurrent, travels along the continental slope and rise.
  • The species inhabits continental slopes of all southern continents.
  • The earthquake triggered submarine landslides that dislodged hundreds of cubic kilometers of sediment on the continental slope.
  • Technically, continental shelves are defined as the region of ocean floor between the coast and the shelf-break, where the seafloor steepens into the continental slope and plunges toward the abyssal depths.
  • This problem with the sediment trap technique is probably restricted to the continental slope and shelf and will not occur over abyssal depths.
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