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THE essentially ‘mature” topography of the continental slopes is so fresh that it is either actively forming now or has been fashioned by ‘yesterday”. Being a surface pattern produced by erosion on a slope formed by deposition, it must owe its origin to a set of circumstances that either appeared for the first time or recurred after an absence sufficiently long to allow substantial progress of the sedimentation that produced the continental shelf.
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BUCHER, W. Origin of the Submarine Valleys on the Continental Slopes of the North Atlantic. Nature 146, 407–408 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146407a0
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