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.
Map of the atlantic ocean floor.
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.
A marine gravity map of the north atlantic ocean red dots show locations of earthquakes with magnitude 5 5 and they highlight the present day location of the seafloor spreading ridges and.
The detail of such submarine terrain as continental slopes abyssal plains and the mighty mid atlantic ridge is stunning.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
It shows such locations as the mid atlantic ridge mid ocean canyon the biscay abyssal plain and the rio grande rise this is the unused huge.
Here for your delectation is the spectacular rare atlantic ocean floor.
National geographic map side b.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
This distinctive physical map of the atlantic ocean floor appeared on national geographic as a supplement to the map of the atlantic.
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.
Typically finely wrought ocean maps have been the result of extensive sonar.
Here is a map of the atlantic ocean floor shown in great detail using shaded relief.