Is Plateau In The Ocean Floor

It is called the pacific antarctic submarine ridge.

Is plateau in the ocean floor.

Part of the floor c 3 000 ft 910 m deep is known as telegraph plateau because of the network of cables laid there. The floor of the pacific in the eastern part rises to form a submarine plateau called albatross plateau. Deposit in the earth of minerals containing valuable metal. An oceanic or submarine plateau is a large relatively flat elevation that is higher than the surrounding relief with one or more relatively steep sides.

Plateaus are not only found on land but in the ocean too. The south pacific region around australia and new zealand contains the greatest number of oceanic plateaus see map. Thin layer of the earth that sits beneath ocean basins. Also called a submarine plateau this plateau covers 115 000 km 44 000 sq mi and more area of shallow water and its depths ranges between 8 150 m 30 490 ft.

The blake plateau gradually descends to approximately 1 000 m deep at its edge which is about 375 km from the shore. A shallow submarine ridge across the strait of gibraltar separates the. It is separated from that of the arctic ocean by a submarine ridge extending from se greenland to n scotland. Mascarene plateau is one of those kinds located in the indian ocean east and north of madagascar.

The ocean basins are characterized not only by lying in deep water the ocean floor averages about 4km below sea level but also by being underlain by a thin layer of crust. The largest plateau in the world is the tibetan plateau located in central asia. Beyond the plateau the sea floor becomes very steep at the blake escarpment a prominent geologic feature that runs along the edge of the continental margin. There is a large number of trenches in the pacific ocean.

On average oceanic crust is only 6 to 7km thick compared to 35 to 40km for con tinental crust. The floor of the atlantic has an average depth of c 12 000 ft 3 660 m. In the south there is a submarine ridge running from north to south. Flat elevated landform rising from the ocean floor.

Part of a landform separated from the rest by erosion. It stretches through the countries of tibet china and india and occupies an area of 2 5 million square kilometers 1 5 million square miles which is four times the size of the u s. There are 184 oceanic plateaus covering an area of 18 486 600 km 2 7 137 700 sq mi or about 5 11 of the oceans.