Here s the most complete ocean floor map ever made.
Google earth ocean floor map.
This latest incarnation though offers in.
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In order to map the ocean floor columbia s lamont doherty earth observatory has aggregated twenty years of data from almost 500 ship cruises and 12 different institutions.
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The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left.
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.
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Google earth released a new feature on june 8 2011 world oceans day that shows five percent of the ocean s floors with a resolution of about 100 meters 109 yards.
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The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean.
They were also made available in a series of area maps and even as a google earth interactive.