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It forms when seafloor spreading creates new crust, the new crust pushes the older crust away creating a plain like area in the water.
This plain area is called a abyssal plain.
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Abyssal plains form beneath the deep ocean, usually found between 3,000 and 6,000 meters deep. Sediments accumulate slowly over time, mostly from fine-grained particles settling from the water column. These sediments are typically made up of organic materials and eroded materials from the continents. The gradual deposition of these sediments over millions of years creates a flat, featureless seabed known as an abyssal plain.
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Why are abyssal plains important in features of the ocean floor?
Abyssal plains are important in features of the ocean floor because they are geological elements of oceanic basins. Abyssal plains can slope or lay flat against the ocean floor.
Abyssal plains are very flat features that form when?
turbidity currents deposit sediments on the ocean floor
Where are abyssal plains?
the bottom of the ocean
Abyssal hills are found on the seafloor between?
abyssal plains and mid-ocean ridges
Are the flattest places on Earth?
Abyssal plains
Does sunlight reach the abyssal plains?
The clearest waters are in the South Pacific Gyre. At this place, the sunlight can still be measured at 200-250m depth at maximum. Abyssal plains are at 3000-4000 m depth... so no the sunlight doesn't reach the abyssal plains, it is very far from that!
Does kelp live on the abyssal plain?
yes kelp lives on the abyssal plains kelp lives every where
Describe an abyssal plain?
The term abyssal plains refers to flat regions of ground underneath the ocean.
What are the flattesto ocean places on earth?
Abyssal plains
Which location is the flatest part of the ocean?
The abyssal plain is the flat area of the ocean floor.
What is the deep flat part of ocean floor?
Abyssal plain. It is the very level area of the deep ocean floor, usually lying at the foot of the continental rise.
What represents the flattest part of Earth's surface?
Abyssal plains
