Ocean Floor Without Water

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
Ocean floor without water. Lying along the top of the abyssal plain is the abyssal zone whose lower boundary lies at about 6 000 m 20 000 ft. If they were to suddenly dry up one day life as we know it would change drastically. The deep ocean floor is a graveyard with much of it made up of the remains of microscopic sea creatures called phytoplankton which thrive in sunlit surface waters. Splendid animation shows the earth without water it s stunning.
The scientists work centred on a geological site in north western australia where a 3 2bn year old slab of ocean floor has been turned on its side. Oceans cover 71 of the earth s surface and contain 97 of the earth s water. The composition of these remains can help decipher how oceans have responded in the past to climate change. 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.
Although they appear solid the composition of some ocean floor rocks is up to 15 percent water. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. The water molecules are actually stuck in the mineral structure of the rock wysession explained.