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
Despite this wide distribution, striped dolphins appear to prefer warmer waters and are probably normally confined to the Gulf Stream or the waters off the continental slope.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell
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