Map Of The 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.
Map of the atlantic ocean floor. This is expensive and time consuming so sonar maps are mostly only made of places where ships spend the most time. 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. Typically finely wrought ocean maps have been the result of extensive sonar. It covers approximately 20 percent of earth s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area.
The detail of such submarine terrain as continental slopes abyssal plains and the mighty mid atlantic ridge is stunning. Here for your delectation is the spectacular rare atlantic ocean floor. 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. National geographic map side b.
Here is a map of the atlantic ocean floor shown in great detail using shaded relief. 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. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.