Labeled World Ocean Floor Map
Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced.
Labeled world ocean floor map. The bathymetric map when combined with the other three maps serves as a base for making geological geophysical studies of the oceans bottom s crustal geophysical data for the continental shelf. Title supplied by cataloger. Relief shown by land form drawings shading and gradient tints. This super detailed map of the ocean floor s topography is based on satellite measurements of subtle lumps on the ocean s surface.
Ocean floor around antarctica is an amazing map that represents a clear terrain view of the ocean floor. Buy this world map with oceans labeled only at maptrove. Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as. The mid atlantic ridge mar is a mid ocean ridge a divergent or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the atlantic ocean and part of the longest mountain range in the world in the north atlantic it separates the north american from the eurasian plate and the african plate north and south of the azores triple junction respectively.
In the south atlantic it separates the. Each consist of three sheets a base bathymetric map a magnetic map and a gravity map and where practicable a sediment overprint nos 1308n 17s. These lumps of water which are subtle low and wide on the. The map in black and blue marks political details.
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. 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. World map physically in german 195 x 125cm physical maps seafloor featureapping the manoa hawaii edu new seafloor map reveals how strange the gulf of mexico is ocean floor topography and features of the. Also covers land areas of the world.
Depths shown by land form drawings shading gradient tints and soundings. Ocean floor map labeled. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Hand painted map by heinrich c.