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This week's Sea-Floor Sunday is a really nice synthesis map of bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea. Click on the map below or here to go to the page where you can see more.
After several larger-scale sea-floor images highlighting tectonic features, I’m going to zoom in a bit for today’s Sea-Floor Sunday and show you some very cool geomorphological features that ...
Among the new features they’re now able to detect, Sandwell says, are thousands of previously unknown seamounts between 1000 and 2000 meters tall dotting the ocean floor.
The review looked at major seafloor features, alongside broader historical, socioeconomic, geological, and oceanographic conditions. "We found that some regions and ecosystems are far better ...
NASA's SWOT satellite revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents, and tectonics. Newsweek. NASA Video Reveals What's Hidden Beneath Earth's Oceans.
Each pixel in the new data represents about 1,600 square feet, roughly the average footprint of an American house, and shows 34,000 seafloor features like pockmarks, channels, hard grounds, mud ...
The new map portrays seafloor features as narrow as 5 kilometers (3 miles). More: NASA Earth Observatory Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens, using data from Sandwell, D ...
The seafloor off the Oregon coast now holds a little less mystery, thanks to a team of geologists, oceanographers and commercial fishermen. They’ve mapped the region's near-shore ocean floor in ...
Seafloor research expedition features live online video feed. by Tim Stephens , University of California - Santa CruzUniversity of California - Santa Cruz ...
Images of the sea floor in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica, reveal impressive evidence that a massive ice-shelf break-up occurred before about 12,000 years ago, and point to a tidal influence on ...
NASA's advanced seafloor mapping technology has revealed what is hidden beneath Earth's oceans. The findings offer an insight into how underwater navigation can be improved.
The seafloor off the Oregon coast now holds a little less mystery, thanks to a team of geologists, oceanographers and commercial fishermen. They’ve mapped the region's near-shore ocean floor in ...