Bass Canyon
One of the largest submarine canyon systems in the world, cut into the continental shelf and slope off eastern Victoria, Australia: about 80 km long and 10 km wide, falling to more than 3,000 m below the sea.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 1,900,000 years ago mainstream
widespread erosion begins at the canyon heads on the outer shelf in the earliest Pleistocene, about 1.95 to 1.72 million years ago, cutting deep V-shaped channels into older U-shaped ones source
Where
38.7000° S, 149.2000° E
Sources
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08120090600981442
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2006.10.037
- https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.22.1.63
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Canyon
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/victorias-hidden-grand-canyon-bass-canyon
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