Not too many people have gone to the floor of the ocean as it requires special diving equipment.
The ocean floor is.
The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world.
The ocean surface is vast and hides an entire world underneath it.
The outer rocky layer of the earth includes about a dozen large sections called tectonic plates that are arranged like a spherical jig saw puzzle floating on top of the earth s hot flowing mantle.
That is not enough to protect coastal cities from rising sea levels but could mean existing.
Bathymetry the shape of the ocean floor is largely a result of a process called plate tectonics.
Though people have traveled on the ocean for millennia people have explored only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor.
Climate change is sinking the ocean floor at a rate around 0 1 millimeters 0 004 inches per year.
It is the bottom of the ocean when you dive.
Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas.
The ocean floor is literally the floor of the ocean.
On average oceanic crust is only 6 to 7km thick compared to 35 to 40km for con tinental crust.
The lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on the seafloor than.