A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf, having nearly...

to as submarine canyons. Unlike canyons on land, submarine canyons are thought to be formed by turbidity currents and landslides. The word canyon is Spanish...

Nazaré Canyon is an undersea canyon just off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal, in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest submarine canyon in Europe...

Monterey Canyon, or Monterey Submarine Canyon, is a submarine canyon in Monterey Bay, California with steep canyon walls measuring a full 1 mile (1.6 km)...

canyons and gorges includes both land and submarine canyons with the land canyons being sorted by continent and then by country. Blyde River Canyon,...

Titanic Canyon is a submarine canyon located south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name was proposed in 1991 by marine geologist Alan Ruffman...

Congo Canyon Congo Canyon is a submarine canyon found at the end of the Congo River in Africa. It is one of the largest submarine canyons in the world...

Mississippi Canyon (the United States) The Mississippi Canyon is an undersea canyon, part of the Mississippi Submarine Valley in the North-central Gulf...

72°28′26″W / 39.665°N 72.474°W / 39.665; -72.474 The Hudson Canyon is a submarine canyon that begins from the shallow outlet of the estuary at the mouth...

The word submarine means 'underwater' or 'under-sea' (as in submarine canyon, submarine pipeline) though as a noun it generally refers to a vessel that...

are benthopelagic creatures that inhabit upper continental slopes, submarine canyons, and seamounts throughout the world at depths greater than 100 m (330 ft)...

Perth Canyon is a submarine canyon located on the edge of the continental shelf off the coast of Perth, Western Australia, approximately 22 kilometres...

The Great Bahama Canyon is a V-shaped submarine canyon system in the Bahamas that cuts between the Abaco Islands to the north and Eleuthera island to...

deepest submarine canyon in the world with a vertical relief of 8,530 feet (2,600 meters) and a length of 99 miles (160 kilometers).  The submarine canyon is...

shelf, about 100 miles (160 km) east of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The submarine canyon is the drowned glacial-age mouth of Toms River. The crater dates to...

reefs, undersea mountains populated by a multitude of organisms, vast submarine canyon systems, and hydrothermal vents are some of the features contained...

deep ocean basins display such channels and canyons resulting from sediment gravity flows and submarine canyons act as conduits for the transfer of sediment...

structure known by locals as the mushroom house.[failed verification] A submarine canyon funnels swells into Black's Beach, making it appealing to surfers but...

The Kaikōura Canyon is a geologically active submarine canyon located southwest of the Kaikōura Peninsula off the northeastern coast of the South Island...

Astoria Canyon is a submarine canyon 10 miles (16 km) offshore from the mouth of the Columbia River. Astoria Fan https://web.archive...

The Bering Canyon is the longest of the Bering Sea submarine canyons; it extends about 400 km across the Bering shelf and slope. It is confined at its...

Turbidity currents have transported the sediment through a series of submarine canyons, some of which are more than 1,500 miles (2,414 km) in length, to...

Astoria Fan is a submarine fan. It has sediment, radiating asymmetrically southward from the mouth of the Astoria Canyon. From Astoria Canyon's mouth, the fan...

The Veracruz Canyon is an underwater canyon. It is located off the eastern coast of Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the port city of Veracruz...

Sound The Bering Sea contains 16 submarine canyons including the largest submarine canyon in the world, Zhemchug Canyon. The Bering Sea shelf break is the...

The Pribilof Canyon is a long submarine canyon rising from the Bering Abyssal Plain on the floor of the Bering Sea to the southeast of the Pribilof Islands...

The Quinault Canyon is a submarine canyon, off Washington state, in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. It lies opposite the Quinault Reservation...

environments in which submarine landslides are commonly found in are fjords, active river deltas on the continental margin, submarine canyon fan systems, open...

the Monterey Canyon. Monterey Bay is one of the most biologically diverse bodies of waters in the world, and the underlying submarine canyon is one of the...

a submarine channel off the shore of Washington state, United States and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Juan de Fuca Channel is a submarine canyon running...