What is Continental slope and Continental shelf: Definition of continental shelf and Slope

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods.

Continental slopes are regions of steeply sloping seafloor that lie between continental shelves and the deep ocean basins. Regional gradients are typically 2–5°, but local slopes may be much steeper.

Formation of Continental Shelf and Slope
Over many millions of years, Sediments formed continental shelves and Slope. As rivers carried sediment-bits of rock, soil, and gravel to the edges of the continents and into the ocean. These sediments gradually accumulated in layers at the edges of continents.

Apart from this large-scale morphology of the Continental shelf and Slope is a consequence of tectonic processes- like The different elevations of continental crust and oceanic crust, The details of the original rift tectonics on passive continental margins, and the styles of Subduction and accretion on convergent margins.

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