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Continental shelf and slope, sea drained
The sea floor off a coast, drained: a gentle shelf out to a shelf break, then a steep continental slope cut by submarine canyons.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| shelfWidth | number | 9 | 2 to 22 km | how far the shelf runs out from the shore to the shelf break |
| shelfBreakDepth | number | 130 | 60 to 200 m | the water depth at the shelf break, where the steep slope begins |
| slopeWidth | number | 5 | 1.5 to 8 km | the horizontal width of the continental slope, from shelf break to the foot at -300 m |
| canyons | bool | true | – | cut submarine canyons down the continental slope |
| canyonSpacing | number | 5 | 2.5 to 9 km | the distance from one canyon to the next along the shore |
| canyonDepth | number | 90 | 0 to 200 m | how deep the canyons cut into the slope |
| plain | number | 22 | 4 to 120 m | the height of the plain inland, 10 km behind the shore |
Use it in a film
film.js
land: element('continental-shelf', { shelfWidth: 9, shelfBreakDepth: 130 })Sources
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Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.