Topographical Map Of Atlantic Ocean Floor
This product is intended to aid fishermen and those needing seafloor features and potential fishing grounds.
Topographical map of atlantic ocean floor. 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. The important features are the extensive continental shelves less than 250 m deep pink. 3 d visualization map of the charleston bump. The mid atlantic ridge in many areas shallower than 3 000 m.
Marie tharp and mapping the ocean floor gis lounge topographical map of the pacific ocean 2000x1516 os offered to seajester topographic map world and. Typically finely wrought ocean maps have been the result of extensive sonar. Ocean topography off the southeast portion of the united states. 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.
This is expensive and time consuming so sonar maps are mostly only made of places where ships spend the most time. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Scientists used multibeam bathymetric data to create a 3 d view of a portion of the charleston bump. And the deep ocean trench north of puerto rico 8 600 m.
Sea surface temperature readings. 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. The topography of the northern atlantic ocean is shown in figure 18 2. Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11 of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise.
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 vast deep ocean plains between 4 000 and 6 000 m deep light and dark blue. A topographic representation of the sea floor around the charleston bump.