The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps abyssal plains trenches seamounts basins plateaus canyons and some guyots.
Atlantic ocean floor topography map.
Ocean topography off the southeast portion of the united states.
The topography of the northern atlantic ocean is shown in figure 18 2.
3 d visualization map of the charleston bump.
Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11 of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise.
These lumps of water which are subtle low and wide on the.
Detailed depth contours provide the size shape and distribution of underwater features.
A topographic representation of the sea floor around the charleston bump.
18 1 the topography of the sea floor we examined the topography of the sea floor from the perspective of plate tectonics in chapter 10 but here we are going to take another look at the important features from an oceanographic perspective.
The map serves as a tool for performing scientific engineering marine geophysical and environmental studies that are required in the development of energy and marine resources.
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.
Topographic maps of the sea floor.