The Deep Ocean Floor Is Flat And Narly Featureless

If you follow the ocean floor out from the beach at the top left the seafloor gently slopes along the continental shelf.

The deep ocean floor is flat and narly featureless.

The highest mountain in the world in terms of distance from base to peak is in the ocean. The deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless. The primary difference between lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle is. At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth.

But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat. A geologist aboard a deep sea research vessel has collected several drill cores of oceanic crust from the bottom of the ocean. Both a and b are correct. Along constructive divergent plate boundaries.

Abyssal plain regions of the sea floor with negative magnetic anomalies were formed during times when earth s magnetic field. Which of these parts of the deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless. Plates slip past each other. The ocean floor has topography as varied as dry land does.

This is the youngest part of the ocean floor that is. The smooth flat regions that make up 40 of the ocean floor are the abyssal plain. The deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless. Temperature the lithosphere is cooler than the asthenosphere.

The deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless. Correct which of these parts of the deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless. Rates of sea floor spreading are equal to sea floor consumption. This is where the new ocean floor comes from.

Core a1 has 2 88 meters m of clay and siliceous ooze covering 4 86 m of pillow basalt. Click card to see definition. The sea floor then drops off steeply along the continental slope the true edge of the continent. None of the above are correct.

Sunlight does not penetrate to the sea floor making these deep dark ecosystems less productive than those along the continental shelf.