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Because the extensive system of trenches along the active margins of the Pacific trap much of the sediments flowing off the continents, preventing them from building the broad, flat abyssal plains typical of the Atlantic. There are a few abyssal plains in the Pacific (notably adjacent to China and Southeast Asia), but none approaches the extent of, say, the Canary Abyssal Plain west of the Canary Islands in the North Atlantic, with an area of 900,000 square kilometers (350,000 square miles).

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