Topography Of The Ocean Floor

The pacific ocean is 35.9% rises and ridges, 2.0% trenches, 13.1%. Explorations after 1950 revealed the true complex nature of the ocean floor. The topography of the northern atlantic ocean is shown in figure 18.2.

The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps, abyssal plains, trenches, seamounts, basins, plateaus, canyons, and some guyots. And purple greater than 6,000 meters. It starts with the outer continental shelf followed by the continental slopes, and.

Blue 4,000 meters to 5,000 meters;

The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps, abyssal plains, trenches, seamounts, basins, plateaus, canyons, and some guyots. Various shelves along the margins of the continents constitute about 11% of the bottom topography with few deep channels cut across the continental rise. Topography of the ocean floor from the late 19th century, when the norwegian explorer fridtjof nansen first discovered an ocean in the central arctic, until the middle of the 20th century, it was believed that the arctic ocean was a single large basin. This map shows a part of the sea floor.