Scientists Mapping The Sea Floor Find The Weird

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Scientists mapping the sea floor find the weird.

Seafloor mapping also called seabed imaging is the measurement of water depth of a given body of water bathymetric measurements are conducted with various methods from sonar and lidar techniques to buoys and satellite altimetry various methods have advantages and disadvantages and the specific method used depends upon the scale of the area under study financial means desired measurement. Just how little do we know about the ocean floor. Massive field of strange holes discovered on sea floor off ca coast. The first modern breakthrough in sea floor mapping came with the use of underwater sound projectors called sonar which was first used in world war i.

By the 1920s the coast and geodetic survey an ancestor of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration s national ocean service was using sonar to map deep water. An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on earth s gravity field and it is a particularly useful tool. The smooth flat regions that make up 40 of the ocean floor are the abyssal plain. Scientists mapping australia s deep sea floor find rubbish at depths up to four kilometres rare deep sea creatures.

Sonar has revealed features such as seamounts submerged volcanic peaks which rise 1 000 m 3 300 ft from the sea floor and guyots flat topped seamounts. Oceanographers use sonar to map the ocean floor. Scientists with the the monterey bay aquarium research institute discovered thousands of mysterious holes in the seabed off big. The research ship directs sound waves at the bottom and charts the echoes that bounce back to create a detailed map.

And in addition to mapping the seafloor they have to bring back images from the deep sea. The maps were created through computer analysis and modeling of new satellite data from esa s cryosat 2 and from the nasa cnes jason 1 as well as older data from missions flown in the 1980s and 90s. Running through all the world s oceans is a continuous mountain range called the mid ocean ridge submarine ridge in figure 14 23. That was a kind of a weird world of dead rotting carcasses dr o hara said.