- Preferred Labelskos:prefLabel
cross-shelf trough (BGU)
- URI
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/def/voc/ga/GeomorphologySettings/cross-shelf_trough ↗Go to the persistent identifier link
- Within Vocab
- Marine geomorphology - Part 2 Geomorphology
| Preferred Labelskos:prefLabel | cross-shelf trough (BGU) |
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| Definitionskos:definition | A wide (several to tens of kilometres) elongate depression of the seafloor, usually a few hundred metres deep, extending across the continental shelf between shallower banks; commonly eroded by grounded ice-sheets over successive full-glacial periods. See transverse channel/trough (Excerpt from Bell et al. 2016, adapted from Bell et al. 1997. In: Dowdeswell et al., 2016). Cf."glacial trough" in Harris et al., (2014). |
| Broaderbroader |
Glacial Setting
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| Narrowernarrower |
valley/trough head (BGU-T)
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| See AlsoseeAlso | Marine geomorphology - Part 2 Geomorphology |
| Is Defined ByisDefinedBy | Marine geomorphology - Part 2 Geomorphology |
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