continental slope

Noun

Meaning

the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bathyal district bathyal zone bay creek cove bight bayou firth fiord belt continental covered coastal estuary sublittoral
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Hypernyms

davy jones seabed ocean floor ocean bottom sea bottom sea floor

Examples

After spawning, some stocks migrate down the continental slope to deeper water and spend the rest of the winter in relative inactivity. Source: Internet

Narwhals from Canada and West Greenland winter regularly in the pack ice of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay along the continental slope with less than 5% open water and high densities of Greenland halibut. Source: Internet

These waters flow out and down the continental slope, losing salinity, until they begin to mix and equilibrate more rapidly, much further out at a depth of about convert. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

continental shelf law continental shell continental shift continental style breakfast continental tectonic plate continental terrace