Ocean Floor Final Frontier
Though people have traveled on the ocean for millennia people have explored only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor.
Ocean floor final frontier. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Final frontier it s as fundamental as lewis and clark going out and mapping out habitats west of the mississippi and they had the advantage of being able to see things van dover said. On a wall facing vicki ferrini s desk hangs a giant map of the atlantic and indian oceans. The global race to map the entire ocean floor.
The ocean surface is vast and hides an entire world underneath it. 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. The global race to map the entire ocean floor an ambitious project to chart the seabed by 2030 could help countries prepare for tsunamis protect marine habitats and. Watch the latest in the ocean series how to stop plastics getting into the ocean.
At 6ft by 8ft it s the largest size. By june 30 2020. The ocean floor is sometimes called the final frontier of the modern era. The ocean floor is sometimes called the final frontier of the modern era.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. At 6ft by 8ft it s the largest size available on the printer at the lamont doherty earth observatory where. Five years ago the associate professor of ocean exploration at. Laura trethewey an ambitious project to chart the seabed by 2030 could help countries prepare for tsunamis protect marine habitats and monitor deep sea mining.
But the challenge is unprecedented on a wall facing vicki ferrini s desk hangs a giant map of the atlantic and indian oceans. Though people have traveled on the ocean for millennia people have explored only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor.