Underwater feature connecting the continental slope and the abyssal plain
Cross Section of Continental Margin
The continental rise is a low-relief zone of accumulated sediments that lies between the continental slope and the abyssal plain.[1] It is a major part of the continental margin, covering around 10% of the ocean floor.[1][2]
^ abMitchell, N. C. (2015), "Submarine Geomorphology☆", Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-12-409548-9
^Patruno, Stefano; Helland-Hansen, William (2018). "Clinoforms and clinoform systems: Review and dynamic classification scheme for shorelines, subaqueous deltas, shelf edges and continental margins". Earth-Science Reviews. 185: 202–233. Bibcode:2018ESRv..185..202P. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.05.016. hdl:1956/18533. ISSN 0012-8252.
The continentalrise is a low-relief zone of accumulated sediments that lies between the continental slope and the abyssal plain. It is a major part of...
sediments deposited by turbidity currents from the shelf and slope. The continentalrise's gradient is intermediate between the gradients of the slope and the...
The continental margin consists of three different features: the continentalrise, the continental slope, and the continental shelf. The continental shelf...
toward the continents and becomes, in order from deep to shallow, the continentalrise, slope, and shelf. The depth within the seabed itself, such as the...
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found on or near the continental shelf, and in deep waters, they are found on or near the continental slope or along the continentalrise. They are not generally...
11% of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continentalrise. The mean depth between 60°N and 60°S is 3,730 m (12,240 ft), or close...
metres (9,800 and 19,700 ft). Lying generally between the foot of a continentalrise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth's...
notch of about 1 km depth in the shelf break, and running down the continentalrise. Tidally associated flows of about 30 cm/s (1.1 km/h) up and down the...
relative sea level depends on many factors - including tectonics, continentalrise and subsidence. Eustatic sea level follows the "bathtub approach" which...
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and thinned, so that the hot asthenosphere rises and heats the overlying rift basin. Apart from continental sediments, rift basins normally also have part...
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in the water. Hemipelagic sediments are deposited on continental shelves and continentalrises, and differ from pelagic sediment compositionally. Pelagic...
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most rapid in areas of high relief, such as volcanic arcs, areas of continental rifting, and orogenic belts. Eroded sand is transported by rivers or...
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their elevation, particularly considering increasing rates of sea-level rise. Sedimentation enhancing strategies aim to increase sedimentation on the...
definition of the continental shelf does not correspond exactly to the geological meaning of the term, as it also includes the continentalrise and slope, and...
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close...
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remarkably similar. Typically they consist of a continental shelf, continental slope, continentalrise, and abyssal plain. The morphological expression...
adjacent plate. When oceanic and continental plates converge, normally the denser oceanic crust sinks under the continental crust in the process of subduction...
including both dry land and continental shelves". The geological continents correspond to seven large areas of continental crust that are found on the...
Bellinghausen Abyssal Plain, is an undersea plain parallel to the continentalrise in the Bellingshausen Sea, named for Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen...
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