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What are the differences between a submarine canyon and a deep-ocean trench?
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A trench is an arc-shaped depression in the deep-ocean floor. The crease occurs in the seafloor when a converging oceanic plate is subducted. It is considered to be the deepest place in the Earth's crust.
A submarine canyon cuts into the continetial shelf and slope, ending in a deep sea fan. Sometimes they extend from the mouth of a river that drains sediment and fast flowing water out to sea. It is created by erosion like canyons on land, also they are sometimes created by earthquakes that cause an "avalanche" of sediments.
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Which is located nearest a continent?
Submarine canyon
Which feature is located nearest continent?
Submarine Canyon
How is a valley different from a canyon?
a river forms a canyon a Vally is the space between two hills
What are the differences between a canyon and a gorge?
A canyon is a deep valley with steep sides, think of the grand canyon most famously to visualise what this is.A gorge is a deep ravine, which usually has a river running through it - though this doesn't have to be the case.Finally a valley is any depression, usually of a certain length, in the surface of the land and often contains a river.So, a canyon is a specific type of valley, with particularly steep sides. A gorge is a particularly deep depression, and will usually contain a river.
What is the difference between a canyon and a mountain?
A mountain sticks up above ground level and a canyon is down below ground level
What is the relationship between a submarine canyon and the continental slope?
I am totally not sure myself but i believe that the submarine canyon cna build off of a continental slope
Is their a submarine in the black canyon?
no
What Submarine canyon?
A valley that is underwater.
How is a submarine canyon formed?
A submarine canyon refers to a steep-sided valley cut into the sea floor of the continental slope. It is formed through turbidity currents that carve out the submarine canyons in the continental shelf.
What Submarine canyon means?
A valley that is underwater.
Which is located nearest a continent?
Submarine canyon
Which feature is located nearest continent?
Submarine Canyon
How is an ocean submarine canyon formed?
Powerful turbidity currents, earthquakes, or movements on a continental slope can form a submarine canyon.
The deepest depth of the Monterey bay in meters?
Monterey Bay is the middle of Monterey Canyon, or Monterey Submarine Canyon in California. The canyon is 3,600 m or 11,800 ft in depth.
Is fracture zone part of continental margin?
no it is not. continental shelf, rise, and submarine canyon.
Which feature would you expect to find at the mouth of a submarine canyon?
A deep sea fan
How could rivers form Submarine canyons?
The submarne canyon is very steep-sidded.
