continental rise

At the slope's base lies the continental rise, an area where the decline is much less pronounced.

The general slope of the continental rise is between 0.5 degrees and 1.0 degrees.

Abyssal plains are large, almost perfectly flat areas, usually near a continental rise.

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Continental rise - is below the slope, but landward of the abyssal plains.

The current continues to slow down as it moves towards the continental rise until it reaches the level bottom of the ocean.

Beyond the continental rise stretches the abyssal plain, an extremely flat area of the sea floor which is also incredibly deep.

Below the slope is the continental rise, which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain.

In fact, we came in through a cliff in the continental rise, a cliff face.

The continental rise is an underwater feature found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain.

Many submarine canyons continue as submarine channels across continental rise areas and may extend for hundreds of kilometers.

Coastal fisheries have access to a large continental shelf, and further afield are large continental rises.

Together, the continental shelf, continental slope, and continental rise are called continental margin.

The transition from continental to oceanic crust commonly occurs within the outer part of the margin, called continental rise.

In some areas, such as the west coast of Central and South America, there is no continental rise; instead, there is a trench.

They should also be sufficiently distant from the continental rise and slope to be safe from 'slumping'.

Most contourites are formed in continental rise to lower slope settings, although they may occur anywhere that is below storm wave base.

Typically they consist of a continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, and abyssal plain.

Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11% of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise.

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At the bottom of the continental slope, one will find the continental rise, an underwater hill composed of tons of accumulated sediments.

Deep water demersal fish live beyond this edge, mostly down the continental slopes and along the continental rises which drop to the abyssal plains.

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The environment in the continental rise is quite unique, and many oceanographers study it extensively in the hopes of learning more about the ocean and geologic history.

Sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of the slope, called the continental rise.