Sea Floor Map Australia

Collecting and managing seafloor data.
Sea floor map australia. Modern research vessels model the sea floor in large swathes on computers. 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. List of links to geoscience australia s 3d models. Interactive maps is a discovery and exploration view of geoscience australia s geospatial services.
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. The maps reveal a large number of underwater canyons in the area as well as 14 underwater mountains or seamounts rising at least 1000 metres from the sea floor. List of links to geoscience australia s 3d models. We re working to put our seafloor on the map through continuous data collection.
Much of australia s vast ocean territory is unknown with less than 25 per cent of it mapped to a modern standard. One seamount the fraser seamount is 4060 metres high nearly twice the height of mt kosciuszko australia s highest mountain says rob. Mapping the ocean floor. General and thematic maps of australia including outline maps bathymetric maps geophysical maps and geological maps.
Australia in early maps. Interactive maps is a discovery and exploration view of geoscience australia s geospatial services. Today conservative estimates suggest only 5 per cent of the ocean floor has been well documented but back then it was less than 1 per cent. Click on a management boundary on the map to generate habitat statistics for that region and to download the subsetted benthic habitat data.
Authorised by the executive director institute for marine and antarctic studies. The ocean an unexplored surface. Using the latest sonar technology both in mobile units and on board rv investigator we can map any part of the ocean floor to any depth measure bodies in the water column and look at the composition of sub seafloor sediments the data we collect is processed and managed by our geophysical survey and mapping team who make it available for. General and thematic maps of australia including outline maps bathymetric maps geophysical maps and geological maps.