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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).
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 vertical walls, and occasionally having canyon wall heights of up to 5 km (3 mi), from canyon floor to canyon rim, as with the Great Bahama Canyon. [1]
It is the largest known ocean canyon off the East Coast of the United States, and one of the largest submarine canyons in the world. The canyon is located near the 100 m (330 ft) isobath on the continental shelf and is 2.2 km (1.4 mi) deep at the base of the continental slope. Over an 80 km (50 mi) distance, the average slope of the canyon ...
6.2 Indian Ocean. 6.3 Pacific ... This list of canyons and gorges includes both land and submarine canyons with ... deepest slot canyon in the world at over 13 mi (21 ...
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 ...
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 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.