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Madeira Abyssal Plain, also called Madeira Plain, is an abyssal plain situated at the center and deepest part of the Canary Basin. It is a north-northeast to south-southeast elongated basin that almost parallels the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Its western boundary is marked by a chain of seamounts known as the either Seewarte Seamounts or Atlantis-Great Meteor Seamount Chain. Its eastern boundary is a distinct break of slope that marks the foot of the African Continental Rise. This abyssal plain occupies an area of about 68,000 km2 (26,000 sq mi). Across this basin, slope angles are generally less than 0.01°.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Alibés, B., Canals, M., Alonso, B., Lebreiro, S.M. and Weaver, P.P.E., 1996. Quantification of Neogene and Quaternary sediment input to the Madeira Abyssal Plain. Geogaceta, 20(2), pp.394-397
  2. ^ Alibés, B., Rothwell, R.G., Canals, M., Weaver, P.P.E. and Alonso, B., 1999. Determination of sediment volumes, accumulation rates and turbidite emplacement frequencies on the Madeira Abyssal Plain (NE Atlantic): a correlation between seismic and borehole data. Marine Geology, 160(3-4), pp.225-250.
  3. ^ Wynn, R.B., Talling, P.J., Masson, D.G., Le Bas, T.P., Cronin, B.T. and Stevenson, C.J., 2012. The influence of subtle gradient changes on deep-water gravity flows: a case study from the Moroccan turbidite system. In, Prather, Bradford E., Deptuck, Mark E., Mohrig, David, Van Hoorn, Berend and Wynn, Russell B. (eds.) Application of the Principles of Seismic Geomorphology to Continental-Slope and Base-of-Slope Systems: Case Studies from Seafloor and Near-Seafloor Analogues. SEPM Special Publication 99. Tulsa, Oklahoma. SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology, pp. 371-383.

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