An abyssal hill is a small hill that rises from the floor of an abyssal plain, generally reaching no more than a few hundred meters in height and ranging from a few hundred meters to several kilometers across. Abyssal hills are the most abundant geomorphic structures on Earth, together covering more than thirty percent of the ocean floor. A stretch of abyssal plain thickly studded with them is called an abyssal hills province, though the hills can also occur in small clusters or standing alone.
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In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
An abyssal hill is a small hill that rises from the floor of an abyssal plain
Caused By: Plate Tectonics, Lead sentence
They may be created along the flanks of the tectonically active East Pacific Rise as horst-and-graben features, then become stretched out with the passage of time.
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