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Erosion in Ocean Basin

    06-Mar-95 19:05:03
Fm: Kamron Kirkconnell 73740,2246
To: Jim Yahr 71524,1252
Jim That is the location. If the charts i am rreferringto are accurate the erosion channels that radiate beyond the trench to the deeper parts of the basin have a wide gap between the coast and the sediment bed. This would eliminate the turbidity currents and the landslides associated with the steep wall of the continental edge. These canyons are present right to the edge of the trench. Looks like they were formed and then the trench gap widened. Kamron