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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.


What is an underwater canyon called?

It could be called a trench, crevice, ocean ridge, or abyss.


What is an underwater valley called?

An ancient under sea valley carved in the ocean floor is known as a canyon, usually given the name of the contributory river on the land. such as the Hudson Canyon, or the Clutha Canyon.


What Submarine canyon?

A valley that is underwater.


What is a underwater canyon called?

It is known as a trench, which is the lower part of the ocean. The deepest trench is the Marina Trench.


What Submarine canyon means?

A valley that is underwater.


What is the name of the world's largest underwater canyon?

It is The Marianas trench it is the deepest underwater canyon and i believe the longest at 1580 miles.The mid atlantic ridge stretches 10,000 miles!


What are deep underwater canyon?

They are created in a process known as, subduction.


How and why does an oceanic trench form?

The earth has plates and when the earth shirfts its plates it open a trench canyon like structure. sorry if my grammer is not perfect. An oceanic trench forms when a denser plate is subducted into the Earth at a convergent plate margin. Because the denser plate (always oceanic crust) is being bent and pulled down into the mantle, a trench forms at this subduction zone.


What is a valley underwater called?

A valley underwater is called a submarine canyon. These can form through a variety of geological processes, such as erosion by underwater currents or the collapse of underwater sediment. Submarine canyons can be important habitats for a diverse range of marine life.


The most rapid change in slope in the ocean is found at the?

Either, Oceanic trench or Submerine canyon.


A steep underwater canyon is called what?

You are probably looking for "trench".