Area Of Ocean Floor

A plane that crashed into the pacific ocean and its pilot a lake tahoe area attorney were recovered from the ocean floor off the southern california coast authorities said on friday.

Area of ocean floor. Following the efforts of the nippon foundation gebco seabed 2030 project coverage of the world s ocean floor has now increased from six percent to 15 percent. The rest of the water covered area comprises mainly shallow seas the continental shelves and lakes. 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. 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.

The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world. 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. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Benthos is the community of organisms which live on in or near the seabed the area known as the benthic zone.

Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas.