Canada Basin Abyssal Plain (CBAP) of the Arctic Ocean is incredibly flat and featureless at first appearance. Sediments of the basin have been interpreted to be turbidites interbedded with hemipelagic sediments. It is hypothesised, however, that deep-ocean geostrophic currents are active here as they are in most ocean basins. Compilations of modern bathymetry and subbottom profiler data are used to assess the possibility of ocean currents and their influence on sediment distribution within Canada Basin. Off of the Alaska-Beaufort margin, eastwardly deflected levees and fans in 3000 to 3800 m water depth along with oblique sediment waves on top of these features suggest a mixed system of turbidity currents influenced by cyclonic flowing geostrophic currents. These features probably formed during glaciations and lower sea level stands when the adjacent Chukchi Shelf was subaerial. Sediment delivery to the margin was likely more pronounced than today, and bottom current activity was presumably intensified. A large (100 km-wide) plastered drift and smaller bedforms were revealed by subbottom profile data along the Canadian Arctic Archipelago margin, in 3000 to 3850 m water depth. It is presumed that these deposits were formed as plumes of sediment, input through glacial outwash or outwash via the Mackenzie River. These plumes were then affected by deep contour-following currents to produce contourites. Large (up to 30 km wavelength) migrating bedforms within northern CBAP are believed to have resulted from turbidity current plumes sourced from the Mackenzie Fan that were additionally influenced by contour current reworking as part of returning cyclonic flow of deep geostrophic currents. There is little to no age control to groundtruth the stratigraphy observed in seismic profiles, but it seems likely, given their near-surface appearance, that sediment input and bottom current intensity was heavily influenced by climatic conditions related to past glaciations and associated relative sea level changes.

北冰洋的加拿大盆地深海平原 (CBAP) 乍一看非常平坦且毫无特色。盆地的沉积物被解释为混有半远洋沉积物的浊积岩。然而，据推测，深海地转流在这里很活跃，因为它们在大多数海洋盆地中都很活跃。现代水深测量和海底剖面仪数据的汇编用于评估洋流的可能性及其对加拿大盆地内沉积物分布的影响。在阿拉斯加-博福特边缘，在 3000 至 3800 米水深处向东偏转的堤坝和扇以及这些特征顶部的倾斜沉积波表明受气旋流动地转流影响的混浊流的混合系统。当邻近的楚科奇陆架在地面时，这些特征可能形成于冰川作用和较低的海平面。沉积物向边缘的输送可能比今天更明显，并且底部当前的活动可能会加剧。沿着加拿大北极群岛边缘 3000 至 3850 米水深的海底剖面数据揭示了一个大（100 公里宽）的抹灰漂流和较小的河床。据推测，这些沉积物是由沉积物羽流形成的，通过冰川流出或通过麦肯齐河流出。然后这些羽流受到深等高线流动的影响，产生等高线。CBAP 北部的大型（长达 30 公里波长）迁移床型被认为是由来自 Mackenzie Fan 的浊流羽流造成的，该羽流还受到等高流再加工的影响，作为深层地转流的返回气旋流的一部分。在地震剖面中观察到的地层学几乎没有年龄控制，但考虑到它们的近地表外观，沉积物输入和底流强度似乎很可能受到与过去冰川和相关相对海平面相关的气候条件的严重影响变化。