continental slope
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The offshore samples, which were collected north of the continental slope and the Antarctic Slope Current, contained the highest concentrations of microplastics.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 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
The mud was deposited in the quiet water of a continental slope environment, and the large clasts were dropped from floating ice derived from glaciers on Laurentia.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
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
