The deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless.
The deep ocean floor is flat and narly featureless.
Core a1 has 2 88 meters m of clay and siliceous ooze covering 4 86 m of pillow basalt.
The smooth flat regions that make up 40 of the ocean floor are the abyssal plain.
This is where the new ocean floor comes from.
Rates of sea floor spreading are equal to sea floor consumption.
A geologist aboard a deep sea research vessel has collected several drill cores of oceanic crust from the bottom of the ocean.
If you follow the ocean floor out from the beach at the top left the seafloor gently slopes along the continental shelf.
Abyssal plain regions of the sea floor with negative magnetic anomalies were formed during times when earth s magnetic field.
Temperature the lithosphere is cooler than the asthenosphere.
This is the youngest part of the ocean floor that is.
Both a and b are correct.
The cores are collected in order from east to west along the bottom of the basin and are labeled a1 b1 c1 and d1 respectively.
The deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless.
The primary difference between lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle is.
The deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless.
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Plates slip past each other.
Which of these parts of the deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless.
Along constructive divergent plate boundaries.
The sea floor then drops off steeply along the continental slope the true edge of the continent.
Abyssal plain question 11 1 out of 1 points correct at transform plate boundaries.
But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat.
Correct which of these parts of the deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless.
The ocean floor has topography as varied as dry land does.
Look at figure 14 23.
At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth.
