The continental rise is a low-relief zone of accumulated sediments that lies between the continental slope and the abyssal plain. It is a major part of...

sediments deposited by turbidity currents from the shelf and slope. The continental rise's gradient is intermediate between the gradients of the slope and the...

The continental margin consists of three different features: the continental rise, the continental slope, and the continental shelf. The continental shelf...

toward the continents and becomes, in order from deep to shallow, the continental rise, slope, and shelf. The depth within the seabed itself, such as the...

found on or near the continental shelf, and in deep waters, they are found on or near the continental slope or along the continental rise. They are not generally...

metres (9,800 and 19,700 ft). Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth's...

11% of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise. The mean depth between 60°N and 60°S is 3,730 m (12,240 ft), or close...

about 1 km (0.62 mi) depth in the shelf break, and running down the continental rise. Tidally associated flows of about 30 cm/s (1.1 km/h) up and down the...

Continental philosophy is an umbrella term for philosophies prominent in continental Europe.[page needed] Michael E. Rosen has ventured to identify common...

and thinned, so that the hot asthenosphere rises and heats the overlying rift basin. Apart from continental sediments, rift basins normally also have part...

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall...

in the water. Hemipelagic sediments are deposited on continental shelves and continental rises, and differ from pelagic sediment compositionally. Pelagic...

In geology, continental collision is a phenomenon of plate tectonics that occurs at convergent boundaries. Continental collision is a variation on the...

A contourite is a sedimentary deposit commonly formed on continental rises in lower slope settings, although it may occur anywhere that is below the storm...

their elevation, particularly considering increasing rates of sea-level rise. Sedimentation enhancing strategies aim to increase sedimentation on the...

Continental drift is the theory, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time...

oceanic plateaus, however, are made of rifted continental crust, for example the Falkland Plateau, Lord Howe Rise, and parts of Kerguelen, Seychelles, and...

basin contains the Sigsbee Deep and can be further divided into the continental rise, the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain, and the Mississippi Cone. Northeast Gulf...

most rapid in areas of high relief, such as volcanic arcs, areas of continental rifting, and orogenic belts. Eroded sand is transported by rivers or...

In marine habitats, the continental slope and the continental rise are home to the highest diversity, while the continental shelf and abyssal depths...

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in relation to the continental shelf in the region of the Philippine Rise. It was submitted as part of...

including both dry land and continental shelves". The geological continents correspond to seven large areas of continental crust that are found on the...

remarkably similar. Typically they consist of a continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, and abyssal plain. The morphological expression...

Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close...

coastal bars and spits, largely clastic with little faunal content) The continental shelf (silty clays, increasing marine faunal content). The shelf margin...

bluish. Coryphaenoides armatus occurs at the deep-slope, on the upper continental rise between 2,000 m and 4,700 m. However, they have been observed at depths...

supplying terrigenous sediment across continental margins to deep-water environments, such as continental rise, where fine particles are further carried...

The Continental Building, formerly Braly Block, is a 151 ft (46 m), 13-story high-rise residential building on Spring Street in the Historic Core of Los...

relative sea level depends on many factors – including tectonics, continental rise and subsidence. Eustatic sea level follows the "bathtub approach" which...

definition of the continental shelf does not correspond exactly to the geological meaning of the term, as it also includes the continental rise and slope, and...