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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 ...
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 ...
NASA's SWOT satellite revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents, and tectonics. I'm a heart surgeon and heart attack survivor. Never ignore these 6 heart ...
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 ...
Map Quest. About 80 percent of the world's ocean area has not been mapped using depth soundings from ships, the study notes. The seafloor features, and depths, revealed by the study serve as a ...
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 ...
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 ...