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Turbidity Currents
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Description: Passive continental margins
Features comprising a passive continental margin
Continental rise
Found in regions where trenches are absent
Continental slope merges into a more gradual incline – the continental rise
Thick accumulation of sediment
At the base of the continental slope turbidity currents that follow submarine canyons deposit sediment that forms deep-sea fans

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