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They are called canyons or trenches, depending on what and where they are.
Canyons cut back into the continental shelves or are scoured channels along the shelf surface, some developed during glacial phases when the sea-level was far lower and some of what are now sea-ways, like the English Channel, were river valleys.
Trenches are particularly associated with subduction zones, where the ocean floor plate is being bent down and forced below the continent.
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What describes the ocean floor?
It is varied and includes features such as submarine canyons, atolls, and mid-ocean ridges.
What is the best description the ocean floor?
It is varied and includes features such as submarine canyons, atolls, and mid-ocean ridges.
What best describes the ocean floor?
It is varied and includes features such as submarine canyons, atolls, and mid-ocean ridges.
What are Deep underwater canyons called?
The oceans floor doesn't just keep getting wider instead the ocean floor plunges into deep underwater canyons called deepocean trenches.Where ever deep ocean trenches are there is subduction.
What happens to the ocean floor at the deep ocean trenches?
what happens is the ocean floor does not just keep spreading.instead, it sinks beneath deep underwater canyons called deep- ocean trenches
What features are found on the ocean floor?
That it is a topgraphical and the features are a ocean floor.
What are some features of the continental shelf?
The continental shelf is the border of any of the continents that extends out and down to the ocean floor. It consists of slopes, rises and underwater canyons.
What is the deep steep side valley that originate on the continental slope and may extend to the ocean basin floor called?
Submarine Canyons
What is a deep steep sided valleys that originate on the continental slope and may extend to the ocean basin floor is called?
Submarine Canyons
What is the name of canyons that form the deepest part of the ocean floor?
The Marianas trench .
What is the floor of the ocean called?
yes, the ocean does have a floor at the very bottom and there are many different ocean floor features there such as mid-ocean ridges, rift zones and also ocean trenches. hope this helps
What forms features on the ocean?
What causes ocean floor features to form
