World Ocean Floor Panorama Labeled

The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world.

World ocean floor panorama labeled. Title supplied by cataloger. One of the most famous world maps is the 1977 world ocean floor map see above created by bruce heezen and marie tharp a pioneering female oceanographer and kick ass female scientist. World ocean floor wall maps world ocean floor panorama. Available also through the library of congress web site as a raster image.

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. Exploration of the seafloor and the earth s crust. The lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on. Woman mar ocean beach.

The problem with that approach is that our oceans are vast and ships are small meaning only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor between 5 15 percent nasa estimates was mapped. Ocean basin any of several vast submarine regions that collectively cover nearly three quarters of earth s surface. Together they contain the overwhelming majority of all water on the planet and have an average depth of almost 4 km about 2 5 miles. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.

Also covers land areas of the world. Ocean floor sand sea. Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas. Their borders are indicated on the world image above in varied shades of blue.

This is the more subtle of the two ocean floor maps 67 3020 is the other 96 x 61 cm 38 x 24. The map is based on more than 5 000 000 miles of soundings. Sea urchins coral sand. Depths shown by land form drawings shading gradient tints and soundings.

The 1977 world ocean floor map created by bruce heezen and marie tharp. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Heinrich caesar berann the father of the modern cartographic panorama painted the first in a series of plan oblique physiographic maps of the ocean floor for marie tharp and bruce. Other articles where ocean floor is discussed.

Prior to the publication of this map scientists had very little idea of what the seafloor looked like on a global. For many years only 4 four oceans were officially recognized and then in the spring of 2000 the international hydrographic organization established the southern ocean and determined its limits. Image taken from here. A number of major features of the basins depart.