Bathymetry and topography of the San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay region, California

Topography and Bathymetry of the Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay region. The image shows that submarine erosion is occurring offshore along the outer margin of the continental shelf and continental slope. Submarine landslides move blocks of materials and sediments churned up in density currents (also called turbidity currents) down slope into the abyssal plain that extends seaward from the base of the continental slope. A great submarine channel extends seaward from the base of Monterey Canyon. Note that this is an anaglyphic image and will appear in 3D relief with red-and-blue 3D viewing glasses.

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