Assertion: seamount's slope | /r/CapableOf | flatten out into abyssal planes
Facets:
value: with the thought
type: MANNER
value: suddenly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: We took the opportunity to sample the very bottom of the seamount – making it a very rare and precious sample – where the steep slopes suddenly flatten out into the abyssal planes, with the thought that this may be where a lot of dead carbonate animals, broken bits of dead coral for example, end up and could be potentially buried in the usually soft muddy sediments that are typical of these vast regions.