Published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the earth s underwater surface even for areas which have.
Google earth ocean floor map.
In order to map the ocean floor columbia s lamont doherty earth observatory has aggregated twenty years of data from almost 500 ship cruises and 12 different institutions.
The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean.
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Google earth released a new feature on june 8 2011 world oceans day that shows five percent of the ocean s floors with a resolution of about 100 meters 109 yards.
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The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left.
Here s the most complete ocean floor map ever made.
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