Atlantic Ocean Floor Landforms

The pacific atlantic indian arctic.

Atlantic ocean floor landforms. Arctic ocean arctic ocean topography of the ocean floor. Volcanoes of the atlantic ocean 15 c 24 p pages in category landforms of the atlantic ocean the following 21 pages are in this category out of 21 total. Mid ocean ridge on the bottom of the ocean there is a central ridge or mountain range that divides the ocean floor into two. The pacific atlantic indian arctic and southern.

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. From the late 19th century when the norwegian explorer fridtjof nansen first discovered an ocean in the central arctic until the middle of the 20th century it was believed that the arctic ocean was a single large basin. The outstanding feature of the atlantic floor is the mid atlantic ridge an immense median mountain range extending throughout the length of the atlantic claiming the centre third of the ocean bed and reaching roughly 1 000 miles 1 600 km in breadth. What is an ocean.

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. 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. Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.

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. Geographers divide the ocean into five major basins. It covers approximately 20 percent of earth s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. Atlantic pacific arctic southern and indian oceans.

This is where the water in the ocean starts to get really deep. The mid atlantic ridge for instance separates the north american plate from the eurasian plate and the south american plate from the african plate the east pacific rise is a mid ocean ridge that runs through the eastern pacific ocean and separates the pacific plate from the north american. This is not the deepest part of the ocean though. It is made up of a total of 5 bodies of water.

Explorations after 1950 revealed the true complex nature of the ocean floor. The oceans of the world are actually a landform of water that do take up 71 of the earth s surface. Smaller ocean regions such as the mediterranean sea gulf of mexico and the bay of bengal. The world below the ocean contain a large variety of landforms as well.

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