This map shows the alvin dive track along the seafloor.
Map of atlantic seafloor.
A marine gravity map of the north atlantic ocean red dots show locations of earthquakes with magnitude 5 5 and they highlight the present day location of the seafloor spreading ridges and.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
Topographic maps of the sea floor produced at a 1 100 000 scale that contain loran c rates bottom sediment types and known bottom obstructions.
The map has more than twice the resolution of previous seafloor maps and shows a plethora of never before seen features.
The results that let this new marvelously detailed map of the seafloor from nasa s earth observatory be made were actually first published last year as part of a paper in science from.
These systems provided the databases to construct the first real maps of important features such as the deep sea trenches and mid ocean ridges.
Unseen details of seafloor exposed in these maps of the atlantic ocean floor the detail of such submarine terrain as continental slopes abyssal plains and the mighty mid atlantic ridge is stunning.
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The colors on this reflectivity map describe the hardness of the seafloor surface.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
Map of the northern gulf of mexico showing the nearly 4 000 active oil and gas platforms.
Each consist of three sheets a base bathymetric map.
A computer enhanced multibeam bathymetry map of the northwestern and northern gulf of mexico continental shelf and slope.
These include thousands of volcanoes and what could be the ridge where two.