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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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What is the relationship between a submarine canyon and the continental slope?

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What Submarine canyon?

A valley that is underwater.


How is a submarine canyon formed?

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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?

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

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The deepest depth of the Monterey bay in meters?

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How is an ocean submarine canyon formed?

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How could rivers form Submarine canyons?

The submarne canyon is very steep-sidded.


How is submarine canyons formed?

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How is a canyons formed?

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