Lying generally between the foot of acontinental rise and a mid-ocean ridge,abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface. the zone of theocean floor that separates the thinoceanic crust from thick continentalcrust. ... the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and thedeep ocean floor.
Abyssal plains are flat wide areas of the ocean floor. You can find these features in between a continental rise and a mid-oceanic ridge. These plains are covered in sediment and are found deep down the ocean floor. They are typically featureless, but they sometimes have hills as well, and the hills are called Abyssal hills.
