Shallow Ocean Floor

The flat bottom of the ocean floor.

Shallow ocean floor. In september 2011 sea ice covering the arctic ocean declined to the second lowest extent on record. The continental shelf can be thought of as the submerged edge of a continent. The rest of the water covered area comprises mainly shallow seas the continental shelves and lakes. It is a subduction zone convergent.

Where the shallow ocean floor is rocky and the water is cold kelp forests can form. About three quarters of our planet s surface is covered with water and the deep basins of the ocean floor account for approximately nine tenths of this water covered area that is some two thirds of the earth s surface. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Neritic zone open ocean shallow ocean intertidal zone.

The deep ocean floor. Which form reefs mostly found in shallow tropical waters are threatened by pollution sedimentation and global warming. The huge kelp creates an underwater forest where many different animals live. Which section of ocean floor is near the coastlines of all continents.

Continental shelf the shallow gradually sloping seabed around the edge of a continent. These are places where large brown algae called kelp grow from the ocean floor all the way to the surface of the water. Marsh trench abyssal plain. It has an average depth of 3 407 feet.

Why do earth scientists think that rigid slabs of the lithosphere are descending into the mantle near the tonga islands. Arctic ocean sea ice. Depths greater than 13 000 feet 4 000 metres occur in the caribbean basin which has numerous shallow and several deep connections with the open ocean and in a few parts of the mediterranean sea which communicates with the atlantic only through the strait of gibraltar. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.

Along what prominent ocean floor features do shallow focus earthquakes occur. The strait is about 8 miles 13 km wide at its narrowest point and the. Open water is dark blue and land masses are gray. Sea lions swim.

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. Usually less than 200 meters in depth. The pacific plate is sub ducting under the australia india plate. The deepest reaches of the ocean were once thought to be devoid of life.

The arctic ocean is the smallest of the earth s oceans and covers about 3 percent of the world s surface area. In this image ice covered areas range in color from white highest concentration to light blue lowest concentration.