continental slope
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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
That number dropped to just nine pieces deeper down on the continental slope.
From Science Magazine
These days, we use very fine-grained sand in a tank to build the continental slope — where the continental shelf dips into the sea — then we inject denser salt water to flow across the slope.
From Nature
Tompkins Conservation says Argentina's new marine protected areas "harbor continental slope waters with cold-water coral reefs, an ecosystem that is considered globally vulnerable."
From Fox News
Tompkins Conservation says Argentina’s new marine protected areas “harbor continental slope waters with cold-water coral reefs, an ecosystem that is considered globally vulnerable.”
From Seattle Times
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