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HURRY PLS!!! Compare and contrast the continental shelf and the abyssal plain.

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The continental shelf is a shallow, near horizontal seafloor extension from the shoreline to the upper continental slope. This shelf forms the shallow margin of each deep-ocean basin. ... At the base of this steep slope is the continental rise which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain.

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