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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.

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How is submarine canyons 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.


How is a canyons 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.


How is an ocean submarine canyon formed?

An ocean submarine canyon is typically formed through a combination of processes such as erosion by currents, turbidity flows, and underwater landslides. These can carve deep, V-shaped valleys in the seafloor, similar to canyons on land. Over time, the canyon can deepen and widen as sediment is transported and deposited within it.


Is their a submarine in the black canyon?

no


What Submarine canyon?

A valley that is underwater.


Which feature would you expect to find at the mouth of a submarine canyon?

At the mouth of a submarine canyon, you would expect to find a submarine fan. This is a large accumulation of sediment that has been transported down the canyon and deposited on the ocean floor as the canyon widens and reaches the abyssal plain.


What Submarine canyon means?

A valley that is underwater.


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


Was the Grand Canyon formed by a crater?

No. The Grand Canyon was formed by the Colorado River.


A canyon on the ocean floor at which the crust bends downward is called?

A submarine canyon is a deep, steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, often formed by underwater currents. It can be a conduit for sediment transport from the shelf to the deep ocean.


An underwater canyon where oceanic crust bends downward is called a?

It's often called a trench.


What canyon was formed by the Colorado River?

The Grand Canyon.