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Sea floor structure.
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.
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There are three kinds of sea floor sediment.
Recent examples on the web floating near the shipping lanes of the santa barbara channel the buoy is attached to an underwater microphone known as a hydrophone positioned 200 meters deep on the seafloor.
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.
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Terrigenous sediment is derived from land and usually deposited on the continental shelf continental rise and abyssal plain.
Seafloor definition is seabed.
The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world.
It is further contoured by strong currents along the continental rise.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas.
Terrigenous pelagic and hydrogenous.
Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
The lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on.