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Describe the process by which abbysal plains are created

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Abyssal plains result from the blanketing of an originally uneven surface of oceanic crust by fine-grained sediments, mainly clay and silt. Much of this sediment is deposited by turbidity currents that have been channeled from the continental margins along submarine canyons into deeper water.

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