continental slope

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The third site was the "wildly weird" Orca Basin, a hypersaline mini-basin nestled into the continental slope.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024

It even provided the first complete picture of a massive 375-kilometer-long slide off North Carolina’s Cape Fear, which tumbled down the continental slope 10,000 to 27,000 years ago.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 8, 2024

This would extend the Bering Sea boundary west and south to Alaska’s Fox Islands, through Unimak Pass to the edge of the continental slope, the agency said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Steep delta faces and underwater flows of sediments are released down the continental slope as underwater landslides, called turbidity flows.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

But it was at sunset of the following clay, when the train was speeding down the continental slope of prairie land beyond the Rockies, that the West took its ruthless revenge.

From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane