Definition: A slope which bridges a continental slope and an abyssal plain, is formed by the accumulation of sediments transported from a continental slope by processes including turbidity currents, and has a gradient less than a continental slope yet greater than a continental shelf.
Definition: Sediment is an environmental substance comprised of any particulate matter that can be transported by fluid flow and which eventually is deposited as a layer of solid particles on the bedor bottom of a body of water or other liquid.
