Abyssal channel

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Abyssal channels are channels in Earth's sea floor. They are formed by fast-flowing floods of turbid water caused by avalanches near the channel's head, with the sediment carried by the water causing a a build-up of the surrounding abyssal plains. The effect of Earth's rotation causes more sediment to build up on one side of the channel than on the other.^[1]