This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
Images of ocean floor topography.
Exercise 18 1 visualizing sea floor topography.
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.
Identify the following features.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
828x1024 predicted topography of the southern ocean 293kb gif.
A a continental shelf b a continental slope c a spreading ridge d a subduction zone with a deep trench e an abyssal plain and f some isolated seamounts.
This study is extensive and it has been established that the ocean floor has similar features of mountains and valleys as on the earth.
834x720 gravity field of the southern ocean from geosat 346kb credit the underlying data sources funding institutions of the data from which the images were derived and noaa ncei for the image.
This map shows a part of the sea floor.
Published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the earth s underwater surface even for areas which have.