The Gulf of Corinth floor
Résumé
The Gulf of Corinth is a narrow, 65-mile-long, 470-fathom-deep trench. The canyons of the steep southern continental slope lead from major river mouths to coalescing sub-sea fans. A narrow abyssal plain underlain by turbidites occupies the deepest part of the gulf.
Three telegraph cables were laid the length of the gulf and maintained for over fifty years. Two of the cables lay on the continental slope and one traversed the abyssal plain. The two cables on the continental slope were broken frequently by turbidity currents originating at the mouth of the major rivers. On the few occasions when cable repairs were made to the cable which crosses the abyssal plain, the cable was found buried.