A vast, extremely flat expanse of the deep ocean floor, typically lying several kilometres below the surface, built up where fine sediment settling from above has buried the underlying, more irregular oceanic crust beneath a smooth blanket. Abyssal plains are among the flattest and least explored landforms on Earth, covering a substantial share of the total ocean floor.
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