Indian Ocean Floor Topography Map

National ocean service nos office of coast survey.
Indian ocean floor topography map. Atlantic ocean 2500x1900 back to. The ridges form an inverted y on the ocean floor starting in the upper northwest with the carlsberg ridge in the arabian sea turning due south past the chagos laccadive plateau and becoming the mid indian or central indian ridge. As far as we can tell a number of undersea mountains have disappeared in the new data. The northern mariana arc submarine volcanoes visited on the srof 06 expedition.
They may also be used. Among the new features they re now able to detect sandwell says are thousands of previously unknown seamounts between 1000 and 2000 meters tall dotting the ocean floor. Hr the southern mariana arc submarine volcanoes visited on the srof 06 expedition. Topographic maps of the sea floor.
Maps support the coastal zone management and energy impact programs and the offshore oil and gas program. Departmei fr of the ltfrerior united states oeolooical survey to accompany map j s80 the llidian ocean the geology of its bordering lands and the configuration of its floor. Detailed depth contours provide the size shape and distribution of underwater features. Now an international team of scientists is using satellite data to chart the deep ocean by measuring the earth s.
We believe this represents errors in the older data that have been corrected.