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SEA CHANNEL [4 records]

Record 1 2011-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Conventions, Treaties and Agreements (Documents)
  • Law of the Sea

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de conventions, de traités et d'accords (Documents)
  • Droit de la mer

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de convenciones, tratados y acuerdos (Documentos)
  • Derecho del mar
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Record 2 2008-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oceanography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A continuously sloping elongated discrete depression found in fans or abyssal plains and customarily bordered by levees on one or both sides.

OBS

sea channel: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Océanographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Dépression allongée dans un bassin océanique, morphologiquement semblable à une vallée terrestre [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau

Spanish

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Record 4 1978-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
OBS

A trough-shaped, low-relief valley on the deep-sea floor beyond the continental rise. It has few tributaries, and may be either parallel or at an angle to the continental margins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
OBS

(...) chenal large (...) de un (...) à cinq milles, (...) profond (...) de 20 à 200 mètres (...) et (...) pouvant atteindre (...) 1000 milles de long. (...) Le (...) fond est flanqué de chaque côté de levées.

Spanish

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