The percentage of the world that is.
Indian ocean floor topography map.
The topography and geology.
Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as.
Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced.
The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean.
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Indian ocean body of salt water covering approximately one fifth of the total ocean area of the world.
The map serves as a tool for performing scientific engineering marine geophysical and environmental studies that are required in the development of energy and marine resources.
Thanks to a new synthesis of seafloor topography released through google earth.
Detailed depth contours provide the size shape and distribution of underwater features.
It stretches for more than 6 200 miles 10 000 km between the southern tips of africa and australia and without its marginal seas has an area of about 28 360 000 square miles.
Relief map of the indian ocean.
It is the smallest geologically youngest and physically most complex of the world s three major oceans.
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This beautifully shaded wall map of the indian ocean floor by national geographic includes the continental plates of africa asia and oceania clearly depicted details featured on this indian ocean floor wall map include ocean floor physical terrain shading ocean floor depths continental shelves and slopes fracture zones ridges plains basins deep sea trenches and channels.
The ocean floors contain dramatic landscapes volcanic ridges lofty peaks wide plains and deep valleys.
Topographic maps of the sea floor.
The indian ocean the third largest ocean of the.