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abyssal plain (plural abyssal plains)

1. (geography) A large expanse of very flat and smooth ocean floor, usually found at depths of 4,600 to 5,500 meters (15,000 to 18,000 feet).
   • 2021 September 27, Jonathan Watts, “Race to the bottom: the disastrous, blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea”, in The Guardian‎[1]:Innocuous as it sounds, this note was a starting gun for a resource race on the planet’s last vast frontier: the abyssal plains that stretch between continental shelves deep below the oceans.

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[edit] expanse of flat ocean floor

Catalan: plana abissal (ca) f Finnish: syvänmeren tasanko Hungarian: abisszikus síkság Irish: má aibhéiseach f Portuguese: planície abissal f

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• Elements of Physical Geography, 4th Edition. →ISBN

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