SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE AND NORTHWEST AFRICA: The continental margin of Europe and Africa is illustrated in Plate 25 by only 23 profiles, and therefore our description of this area cannot be as detailed as that for North America. For purposes of description we have broken the area into four sectors of contrasting type: (1) the Anglo-French sector: (2) the Iberian sector; (3) the Gibraltar sector; and (4) the North African sector. In all but the three profiles in the Gibraltar sector there is a well-defined continental shelf. The continental slope is everywhere present but ranges widely in height and gradient. The continental rise is extremely well developed off Africa but virtually absent in the Bay of Biscay. Abyssal plains are shown on almost every profile, but their depth ranges from 2550 to 3075 fathoms, and their width from 50 to 250 miles. Anglo French Sector.--Profiles E-1, E-2, and E-3 are representative of the Anglo-French sector which extends from 45° N. to 60° N. Only the southern part of this sector is shown on the physiographic diagram. The continental slope is broken by a prominent bench or marginal plateau at 1000-1200 fathoms. The northwest corner of the physiographic diagram south to 42° N. is included in Hill's (1956) contour chart. According to this chart the prominent 1200-fathom bench extends for more than 900 miles along the continental margin from 45° to 60° North Latitude. The continental slope from the shelf break to the prominent bench exhibits smaller benches and changes in slope, many of which probably will be correlatable when more profiles are obtained in this region. The general gradient of this portion of the slope ranges from 1:10 to 1:30. On the bench individual slope segments range from 1:40 to 1:80. Below the bench the sea floor drops from 1500 to 2100 fathoms at gradients of 1:15 to 1:30. In profiles E-1 and E-3 a narrow continental rise about 70 miles wide with gradients of 1:250 to 1:800 lies at the foot of the continental slope. This narrow continental rise (Pl. 8, fig. 1) gives away to a 60-mile-wide abyssal plain at about 2500 fathoms depth (Pl. 8, fig. 3). Abyssal-plain gradients are about 1:2000 in this region. Toward the southeast corner of the Bay of Biscay the 1000- to 1200-fathom bench disappears (Fig. 16b); the continental rise and continental shelf narrow to 30 miles. We have only two profiles off the north coast of Iberia, but Hill's (1956) chart suggests that the slope is relatively steep with some prominent benches, and that the continental shelf and continental rise narrow to 10 to 15 miles in width. The prominent Cape Breton Submarine Canyon lies at the southeast corner of the Bay of Biscay (Bourcart, 1949).