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abyssal plain

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | Date: 1999

abyssal plain Smooth, almost level area of the deep-ocean floor in which the gradient is likely to be as low as 1: 10 000. The covering sediments are usually thin deposits of a pelagic ooze or distal turbidite.

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