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    Abyssal plains are extremely flat areas of the ocean floor covered in sediment and occasionally interrupted by extinct underwater volcanoes called seamounts. Abyssal hills are common on the slopes of mid-oceanic ridges, being elongate hills typically 50-300 meters high. Mid-oceanic ridges are submarine mountain chains that circle the globe over 65,000 km, containing a central rift valley and rugged flanking terrain, cut and offset at various points by transform faults.

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    Abyssal plains are extremely flat areas of the ocean floor covered in sediment and occasionally interrupted by extinct underwater volcanoes called seamounts. Abyssal hills are common on the slopes of mid-oceanic ridges, being elongate hills typically 50-300 meters high. Mid-oceanic ridges are submarine mountain chains that circle the globe over 65,000 km, containing a central rift valley and rugged flanking terrain, cut and offset at various points by transform faults.

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    Abyssal plains are extremely flat areas of the ocean floor covered in sediment and occasionally interrupted by extinct underwater volcanoes called seamounts. Abyssal hills are common on the slopes of mid-oceanic ridges, being elongate hills typically 50-300 meters high. Mid-oceanic ridges are submarine mountain chains that circle the globe over 65,000 km, containing a central rift valley and rugged flanking terrain, cut and offset at various points by transform faults.

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    B. ABYSSAL PLAINS AND ABYSSAL HILL.

     
    Abyssal plain is an extremely flat, sediment-covered stretches of the ocean floor, interrupted by
    occasional volcanoes, mostly extinct, called seamounts.

    • ABYSS- Means very deep


    ABYSSAL HILLS- elongate hills, typically 50-300m high and common on the slopes of mid-
    oceanic ridge.

    C.MID-OCEANIC RIDGES.
    a SUBMARINE MOUNTAIN CHAIN that winds for more than 65,000 km around the globe.
    It has a central rift valley and rugged topography on its flanks.
    Mid-ocean ridges are cut and offset at many places by transform faults.

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