Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced.
World ocean floor map labeled.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
The ocean floor is covered with mountains valleys plains and other features similar to the land surfaces of earth.
Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.
An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor usually found at depths between 3 000 metres 9 800 ft and 6 000 metres 20 000 ft lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid ocean ridge abyssal plains cover more than 50 of the earth s surface.
This is expensive and time consuming so sonar maps are mostly only made of places where ships spend the most time.
Ocean floor map labeled.
The ocean s features like land features are a result of tectonic processes from deep inside the earth.
Here is an ocean floor map.
Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as.
Researchers have built a detailed map of the ocean floor s topography by using satellites to spot subtle watery lumps on the ocean s surface.
The map in black and blue marks political details.
Ocean floor around antarctica is an amazing map that represents a clear terrain view of the ocean floor.
It shows some of the major mountain ranges and trenches that.
Buy this world map with oceans labeled only at maptrove.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
They are among the flattest smoothest and least explored regions on earth.