Long Lines On Ocean Floor

Most of the ocean bathymetry data comes from satellite measurements of gravity.

Long lines on ocean floor.

The lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on. Long lines formed outside a health resource center in a new jersey township thursday where officials tried to get a handle on the state s first major regional hotspot since its outbreak began to. The grid lines are most likely a processing artifact. A symmetrical pattern of positive and negative magnetic lines emanates from the mid ocean ridge.

The gridded section shown above may look like streets in a small town but is over 100 miles wide. The gravity data are cross checked against ship sonar tracks from a variety of vessels. The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world. It just seems self evident that space would be a better way to virtually wire the internet than our current method of running really long cables slash shark buffets along the ocean floor.

The pattern you are seeing is typical for a research vessel surveying a patch of ocean floor. New rock is formed by magma at the mid ocean ridges and the ocean floor spreads out from this point. The lines seen on the maps of the ocean floor such as seen on google earth are man made but made from data and do not actually exist on the ocean. Topographic maps of the sea floor produced at a 1 100 000 scale that contain loran c rates bottom sediment types and known bottom obstructions.

The oceanic crust displays a pattern of magnetic lines parallel to the ocean ridges frozen in the basalt. Exploration of the seafloor and the earth s crust. Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas. Other articles where ocean floor is discussed.

The lines seen here show the paths taken by ships using sonar to map small sections of the ocean floor in greater detail. This product is intended to aid fishermen and those needing seafloor features and potential fishing grounds. 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.