continental slope"The declivity from the outer edge of the continental shelf or continental borderland into greater depths.
Continental Slope The area of descent from the edge of the continental shelf into greater depth.
At the edges of the shelves, the continental slopes drop rapidly from 100 to 200 m to 3000 to 3700 m. continental slopes See continental shelves.
During the 1982-83 event, jack mackerel and anchoveta populations were reduced, scallops increased in warmer water, but hake followed cooler water down the continental slope, ...
western and northern Atlantic Ocean: the Florida current, which flows through the Florida Straits between the Florida Keys and Cuba and northwards; the Gulf Stream, which begins around Cape Hatteras and flows northeasterly off the continental slope ...
 See also: Current, Pressure, Surface, Ocean, Water
  
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