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Description: "Continental slope and upper continental rise northeast of Hudson Canyon, showing the four newly named submarine canyons along the continental slope: Emery, Uchupi, Ryan, and McMaster. Shaded-relief bathymetric imagery constructed by Tammie Middleton from multibeam bathymetric data collected on the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown, 2002. Contour interval, 100 m; dark blue lines were derived from the NOAA Coastal Relief Model, and light yellow lines from multibeam bathymetric data collected in 2002."
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