An international team charts four previously unnamed underwater canyons, investigates nearly 20 methane seep ecosystems ...

Submarine fans receive sediment through canyon-channel systems and are the largest detrital accumulations on Earth. Their general characteristics and developmental models are reviewed. Submarine ...

Deep below the surface, in waters off Australia's east coast, lies a network of what scientists are now calling "sea floor super highways". The scientific name is submarine canyons, which are ...

Deep below Monterey Bay lies one of the largest submarine canyons on the west coast of North America. Monterey Canyon has a topography that rivals the Grand Canyon, but its scale and grandeur ...

It occurred underwater off West Africa, in a deep canyon leading away from the mouth of the Congo River. Something in excess of a cubic kilometre of sand and mud descended into the deep.

The Origin of Submarine Canyons Many theories have been proposed to account for these rugged features of the earth's crust. It now seems that they are cut by streams of turbid water which flow ...

This deep-sea creature, found in the Gully, a large underwater canyon, remained a mystery for 15 years until genetic analysis matched it with a specimen from a Russian expedition. Whalefish are ...

The team explored four unnamed submarine canyons in southern Chile for the first time, mapping them to a high resolution. The largest of the canyons is approximately 2000 square kilometers (770 ...