submarine canyon
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The torrent carved a 320-kilometer-long submarine canyon that is still visible today on the seafloor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025
Bischoff hypothesized that during the Miocene era, a heavy storm washed plant and animal debris down from a prehistoric island into a submarine canyon before mud sealed the organic materials into a layer of sediment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
Tall as a 10-story building, the waves are caused by a submarine canyon — three miles deep, and 125 miles long — that abruptly ends just before the village’s shoreline.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
This submarine canyon begins in the river’s lower reaches and extends some 400 kilometers into the Atlantic Ocean to depths of over 3,000 meters.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2010
Prize discovery, according to Columbia Geologist W. Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, was a mysterious submarine canyon, 250-300 ft. deep, winding 800 miles across the mid-ocean floor three miles below the surface.
From Time Magazine Archive
