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Continental Slopes and Shelves
The Geographical Journal, 1941AROUND every continent is a relatively flat but gradually shelving sub-?~^-marine belt running out from the low tide mark. Its width varies greatly, but it is usually between 50 and 150 miles; its outer edge is arbitrarily but conveniently defined by the 100-fathom line.
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The Scottish continental slope current
Continental Shelf Research, 1983Abstract A four-month record from a current meter mooring on the continental slope west of Scotland displayed a steady northward current of 0.16 m s−1 which appears to be associated with a core of warm light water normally observed over the shallow side of the slope. Although the tides change considerably between deep water and the continental shelf,
David A. Booth, D.J. Ellett
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Eddy formation on a continental slope
Journal of Marine Research, 1997We consider a uniform-density ocean in which the depth-independent horizontal velocity is driven by a two-gyre wind. Numerical solutions of the governing vorticity equation reveal that the solutions with a flat ocean bottom differ greatly from those in which a continental shelf and slope are present along the western boundary. In the ocean basin with a
Janet M. Becker, Rick Salmon
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1979
Abstract The continental slope is defined as the zone extending from the shelf break and terminating at the continental rise where the gradient becomes less than 1:40 or where the slope is bounded by a deep-sea trench or a marginal plateau. Although the slope is commonly the steepest physiographic province of the continental margin, a
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Abstract The continental slope is defined as the zone extending from the shelf break and terminating at the continental rise where the gradient becomes less than 1:40 or where the slope is bounded by a deep-sea trench or a marginal plateau. Although the slope is commonly the steepest physiographic province of the continental margin, a
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Pogonophora on the New England Continental Slope
Science, 1963Two species of Pogonophora on the continental slope off southern New England are reported. Two species were found: Siboglinum ekmani Jägersten and Siboglinum sp., an undescribed species. The density of both species combined, at 366 m, was 30 per square meter and at 567 m depth, it was 25 per ...
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Carbonates of the Louisiana Continental Slope
Offshore Technology Conference, 1987ABSTRACT The continental slope off central Louisiana has' extremely complex surface topography as well as subsurface structures that are primarily inherited from salt tectonics, with other features generated by differential sedimentation, erosion, and mass movement.
H.H. Roberts, R. Sassen, P. Aharon
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1979
Abstract Continental slopes are the edges of continental blocks, the zones of change from continental crust to oceanic crust. They are critical links in the chain of sedimentary processes that eventually carry sediment to the true ocean basin floor.
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Abstract Continental slopes are the edges of continental blocks, the zones of change from continental crust to oceanic crust. They are critical links in the chain of sedimentary processes that eventually carry sediment to the true ocean basin floor.
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Erosion of canyons in continental slopes
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2005AbstractSonar images of the Atlantic USA continental slope reveal an eroded landscape that appears remarkably similar to subaerial landscapes eroded by surface runoff. Analysis of multibeam data reveals that they are also similar in a number of quantitative aspects, such as similar scaling between channel gradient and contributing area, they show Hack ...
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Sedimentation on the Antarctic Continental Slope
1979Abstract The Antarctic continental margin is presently characterized by three different glacial regimes. These include: continental margins where the ice sheet is grounded on the continental shelf, those whose inner shelves are covered by floating ice shelves, and those which bound mountainous coasts where valley glaciers debouch ...
John B. Anderson +2 more
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Sediment partitioning, continental slopes and base‐of‐slope systems
Basin Research, 2016AbstractDeciphering the role slope topography plays in partitioning sediment on siliciclastic continental slope and base‐of‐slope systems helps our understanding of slope depositional processes in significant ways: (1) by validation of large‐scale depositional process models for continental margins, (2) by validation of numerical basin‐scale ...
Bradford E. Prather +3 more
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