As far as we can tell a number of undersea mountains have disappeared in the new data.
Indian ocean floor topography map.
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.
Maps support the coastal zone management and energy impact programs and the offshore oil and gas program.
Detailed depth contours provide the size shape and distribution of underwater features.
National ocean service nos office of coast survey.
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The maps also bring erupting mid ocean ridges into sharper focus and help scientists understand volcanic eruptions the vast majority of which occur hidden far from view on the ocean floor.
We believe this represents errors in the older data that have been corrected.
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Now an international team of scientists is using satellite data to chart the deep ocean by measuring the earth s.
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.
Not so long ago the ocean floor was as unknown as the far side of the moon.
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