A Map Of Just The Ocean Floor Below Sea Level

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A map of just the ocean floor below sea level.

In the northern indian ocean it reveals an underwater ridge running all the way through the bengal fan a blanket of. Benthos is the community of organisms which live on in or near the seabed the area known as the benthic zone. The map can also peer more clearly beneath sediments blanketing the sea floor. The problem with that approach is that our oceans are vast and ships are small meaning only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor between 5 15 percent nasa estimates was mapped.

This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Negative elevation means depth below sea level. New sea floor map for google earth january 13 2016 in late 2014 we had a look at a map of the ocean floor published by the scripps institution of oceanography university of california san diego. The elevation layered on the map is in meters and is from sea level.

Measured from its base on the ocean floor it rises over 10 000 m 33 000 ft significantly greater than the elevation of mount everest above sea level. Mauna kea stands 4 207 3 m 13 803 ft above sea level about 38 m 125 ft higher than its neighbor mauna loa and is the highest point in the state of hawaii. The elevation is zero for the sea level. After ascending to 8 200 feet below sea level to the ridge s peak i would descend several hundred feet cross the ridge s central rift valley and proceed up over the ridge s eastern edge.

The report findings are based on coastaldem a new digital elevation model developed by climate. Click text links below the map to access the data in a variety of formats. Explore the site s sea level trends by ocean basin maps. Map of the united states indicating high risk flood areas with sea level rise.

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. This community lives in or near marine sedimentary environments from tidal pools along the foreshore out to the continental shelf and then down to the abyssal depths the benthic zone is the ecological region on in and immediately above the seabed including the sediment surface. 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.