The Flat Area Of The Ocean Floor

Abyssal plains generally lie.

The flat area of the ocean floor. At the ocean floor submarine ridges of a few hundred kilometres wide and a few thousands kilometres in length are also found. They are among the earth s flattest and smoothest regions and the least explored. The abyssal plains are flat or very gently sloping areas of the deep ocean floor. The globe isn t flat and neither are the world s oceans.

Running through all the world s oceans is a continuous mountain range called the mid ocean ridge submarine ridge in figure 14 23. Like even the flattest grasslands the world s oceans have varied elevations. Mid ocean ridge on the bottom of the ocean there is a central ridge or mountain range that divides the ocean floor into two parts. Bathymetry the shape of the ocean floor is largely a result of a process called plate tectonics the outer rocky layer of the earth includes about a dozen large sections called tectonic plates that are arranged like a spherical jig saw puzzle floating on top of the earth s hot flowing mantle.

The difference is sea level is caused by two major factors. The rest of the water covered area comprises mainly shallow seas the continental shelves and lakes. Flat low lying area of the ocean floor. A stretch of underwater mountains.

The total length of the submarine ridges is more than 75 000 km. We have big news. Deep cuts in the ocean floor canyon like. They are longer than the longest mountain ranges on the continents.

Tides and ocean currents. The ocean floor is sand so that is his beach and the ocean is an underwater flat zone where currents have no effect which landform is characterized as large areas of low lying flat ground. About three quarters of our planet s surface is covered with water and the deep basins of the ocean floor account for approximately nine tenths of this water covered area that is some two thirds of the earth s surface. These underwater volcanic mountains are known as the mid ocean ridge.

The ridges are either flat like plateau or steep sided mountains. Wide flat area that makes up most of the ocean floor covered with a thick layer of sediment ocean trenches long narrow deep parts of the seafloor formed where a subducting slab bend down into earth. The smooth flat regions that make up 40 of the ocean floor are the abyssal plain. We re aren t just talking about the ocean floor but the actual surface of the ocean.