The Sea Floor Is Part Of The

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The sea floor is part of the.

Sea levels during ice ages because much of the water that would otherwise be in the ocean is locked up in continental ice. Features rising up from the ocean floor include seamounts volcanic islands and the mid oceanic ridges and rises. Below the ocean floor there are a few small deeper areas called ocean trenches. Continental shelf is the shallow portion of the ocean which lies close to the continental margin.

Map showing the underwater topography bathymetry of the ocean floor. The part of the ocean floor immediately next to continents that has relatively shallow water above it. All floors of the ocean are known as seabeds. When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is absorbed.

Seafloor spreading and other tectonic activity processes are the result of mantle convection. The ocean floor is called the abyssal plain. Mantle convection is the slow churn ing motion of earth s mantle. Ocean a is very large and looks like it has baseball stitches down its center.

Seafloor spreading is a geologic process in which tectonic plate s large slabs of earth s lithosphere split apart from each other. Wally needs to predict what the planet will look like far into the future. In general the ocean floor can be divided into four major divisions. Charting the ocean floor.

Tha san anreas fault is an example of this type of boundary. Ocean b is very small and has volcanoes all along one side. It is actually a part of the continent sloping gently towards the sea floor. Like land terrain the ocean floor has ridges valleys plains and volcanoes.

By creating complex 3 d maps they re hoping to learn more about waves and achieve ambitious conservation goals. Plate tectonics and the ocean floor bathymetry the shape of the ocean floor is largely a result of a process called plate tectonics. The seabed also known as the seafloor sea floor or ocean floor is the bottom of the ocean no matter how deep. The bottom of the sea is lined with calcium carbonate which comes from the shells of zooplankton that have died and sunk to the ocean floor.

Features of the ocean include the continental shelf slope and rise.