Digital Map Of World Ocean Floor

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Digital map of world ocean floor. World ocean floor map. A digital age map of the ocean floor. This raised relief three dimensional topographic map of the world features the physical features of both the continents and the ocean floor based on research and exploration initiated and supported by the united states navy office of naval research. 4 5 out of 5 stars 170 170 reviews.
It is the first time the composition of the seafloor covering 70 percent of the earth s surface has been mapped in 40 years. Made by the university of sydney s school of geosciences and national ict australia nicta the map can be used to plot the planet s underwater carbon sinks and understand how oceans respond to. Extensive worldwide data includes political road digital vector maps with stunning high resolution hill shading land ocean floor relief contour options fully layered in illustrator cs plus pdf tiff jpeg options. Published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the earth s underwater surface even for areas which have.
The last complete map was hand drawn in the 1970s. The most recent map was hand drawn in the 1970s. Their collaboration culminated in the 1977 world ocean floor map which revolutionized the theories of plate tectonics and. Scientists from the university of sydney s school of geosciences have led the creation of the world s first digital map of the seafloor s geology.
Printed maps canvas stretched or rolled vinyl push pin world map printed products. It clearly shows the undersea terrain as no other raised relief map does. Heinrich caesar berann the father of the modern cartographic panorama painted the first in a series of plan oblique physiographic maps of the ocean floor for marie tharp and bruce heezan in 1967. Immediate download upon checkout.
This is the first ever digital map of the earth s seafloor revealing deep ocean basins to be much more complex than previously thought. This is a still shot of the world s first digital map of the seafloor s geology. Forty years after the ocean floor was first mapped by hand a team of australian researchers has created the first digital map of the entire sea floor.