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Zhemchug Canyon (from the Russian жемчуг, "pearl") is an underwater canyon located in the Bering Sea between the Siberian and Alaskan coastlines. It is the 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 canyon descends into deep water and merges into an ocean channel system that can be traced for hundreds of kilometres across the deep ocean floor. [1] At the head of the Kaikōura Canyon, the depth of water is around 30 metres (98 ft), but it drops rapidly to 600 metres (2,000 ft) and continues down to around 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) deep ...
At its deepest point, the V-shaped canyon walls are 1,100 meters tall, and the maximum width of the canyon is about 9 miles (14 km). [2] At the bottom of the continental slope, it enters the Congo deep-sea fan and extends for an additional 220 km.
Pribilof Canyon, in the Bering Sea, southeast of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska; Scripps Canyon, off the coast of La Jolla, southern California; Zhemchug Canyon, in the central Bering Sea between the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia; the largest submarine canyon in the world based on drainage area
Perth Canyon, off the coast of Perth, Western Australia, reaches a depth of 4,000 m (13,123 ft) and contains the world's largest plunge pool; Pribilof Canyon, in the Bering Sea; Whittard Canyon, Atlantic Ocean off southwest Ireland; Zhemchug Canyon the deepest and joint-widest submarine canyon in the world, in the Bering Sea
The egress of the Great Bahama Canyon into the Atlantic Ocean is the dark blue channel at upper center. The Great Bahama Canyon is a V-shaped [1] submarine canyon system in the Bahamas that cuts between the Abaco Islands to the north and Eleuthera island to the south. It separates the Bahama Banks and forms one of the deepest underwater canyon ...
The Nazaré Canyon off the coast of Portugal. The Nazaré Canyon is a submarine canyon just off the coast of Nazaré, portuguese Oeste region, in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest submarine canyon in Europe, [1] reaching depths of about 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) deep and a length of about 230 kilometres (140 mi). [2]
Monterey Canyon begins at Moss Landing, California, which is situated along the middle of the coast of Monterey Bay, and extends horizontally 95 mi (153 km) under the Pacific Ocean where it terminates at the Monterey Canyon submarine fan, reaching depths of up to 3,600 m (11,800 ft) below surface level at its downstream mouth. It is a part of ...