A Map Of Just The Ocean Floor 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.

A map of just the ocean floor below sea level.

The site displays a current graph of estimated mean sea level. Explore the site s sea level trends by ocean basin maps. Mazpzen tnm srtm gmted etopo1. In the northern indian ocean it reveals an underwater ridge running all the way through the bengal fan a blanket of.

Map of the united states indicating high risk flood areas with sea level rise. 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. 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. Notes before using this flood map application please note that for various technical or non technical reasons the application is not.

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 map can also peer more clearly beneath sediments blanketing the sea floor. Click text links below the map to access the data in a variety of formats. Benthos is the community of organisms which live on in or near the seabed the area known as the benthic zone.

The elevation is zero for the sea level. Txt ascii csv netcdf 3 png. 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. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.

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. Negative elevation means depth below sea level. 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.