Sea Floor Structure

The lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on.

Sea floor structure.

Other articles where ocean floor is discussed. 2020 for phase one of the underwater data center experimentation. There are three kinds of sea floor sediment. It is further contoured by strong currents along the continental rise.

This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Terrigenous sediment is derived from land and usually deposited on the continental shelf continental rise and abyssal plain. The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world. Terrigenous pelagic and hydrogenous.

This community lives in or near marine sedimentary environments from tidal pools along the foreshore out to the continental shelf and then down to the abyssal depths the benthic zone is the ecological region on in and immediately above the seabed including the sediment surface. 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. Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor. Benthos is the community of organisms which live on in or near the seabed the area known as the benthic zone.

The mid atlantic ridge for instance separates the north american plate from the eurasian plate and the south american plate from the african plate the east pacific rise is a mid ocean ridge that runs through the eastern pacific ocean and separates the pacific plate from the north american. Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Exploration of the seafloor and the earth s crust.