A scalloped portion of the wall in Heezen Canyon. The near-horizontal cracks are breaks between bedding (depositional layers), while the near-vertical cracks are fractures or joints that form when the buried rocks depressurize as they reach the seafloor through erosion.
Heezen Canyon
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013.
A scalloped portion of the wall in Heezen Canyon. The near-horizontal cracks are breaks between bedding (depositional layers), while the near-vertical cracks are fractures or joints that form when the buried rocks depressurize as they reach the seafloor through erosion. Download image (jpg, 113 KB).
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