This map of a Grand-Canyon-sized chasm off California took 15 years to create

Just offshore from the small town of Moss Landing, Calif.once an important West Coast fishing hub and now a center of oceanographic researchstretches one of the countrys most magnificent but little-known geologic features: Monterey Canyon.

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