ocean floor features. the ocean floor is as diverse as the topography of the continents
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Ocean floor features
The ocean floor is as diverse as the topography of the continents.
Continental Margin
Thick layers of undisturbed sediment.
Why?
Atlantic margin wider than pacific.
Why?
Continental shelfImportant mineral deposits including oil and gas/sand and gravel
Continental slope-submarine canyonsHow do you think they might form?
Continental rise-slope decreases until the abyssal plain is reached
Deep sea trench
Mid Ocean Ridge
Sea floor sediments
Terrigenous sediments
Biogenous sediments
What is the difference between the two?
What is sediment?
Where do you think the sediment might be thickest
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