Map Of The Atlantic Ocean Floor
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.
Map of the atlantic ocean floor. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. It covers approximately 20 percent of earth s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. The atlantic ocean is the second largest of the world s oceans with an area of about 106 460 000 km 2 41 100 000 sq mi. National geographic map side b.
The outstanding feature of the atlantic floor is the mid atlantic ridge an immense median mountain range extending throughout the length of the atlantic claiming the centre third of the ocean bed and reaching roughly 1 000 miles 1 600 km in breadth. It separates the old world from the new world the atlantic ocean occupies an elongated s shaped basin extending longitudinally between europe and africa to the east. This is expensive and time consuming so sonar maps are mostly only made of places where ships spend the most time. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
The detail of such submarine terrain as continental slopes abyssal plains and the mighty mid atlantic ridge is stunning. Typically finely wrought ocean maps have been the result of extensive sonar. Here for your delectation is the spectacular rare atlantic ocean floor. It shows such locations as the mid atlantic ridge mid ocean canyon the biscay abyssal plain and the rio grande rise this is the unused huge.