Long Lines On Ocean Floor

The area above is one of the more frequently cited underwater city locations in online lore.

Long lines on ocean floor.

It just seems self evident that space would be a better way to virtually wire the internet than our current method of running really long cables slash shark buffets along the ocean floor. Exploration of the seafloor and the earth s crust. The gridded section shown above may look like streets in a small town but is over 100 miles wide. Other articles where ocean floor is discussed.

The grid lines are most likely a processing artifact. The gravity data are cross checked against ship sonar tracks from a variety of vessels. This product is intended to aid fishermen and those needing seafloor features and potential fishing grounds. A symmetrical pattern of positive and negative magnetic lines emanates from the mid ocean ridge.

The lines seen on the maps of the ocean floor such as seen on google earth are man made but made from data and do not actually exist on the ocean. The oceanic crust displays a pattern of magnetic lines parallel to the ocean ridges frozen in the basalt. The pattern you are seeing is typical for a research vessel surveying a patch of ocean floor. The lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on.

Long lines formed outside a health resource center in a new jersey township thursday where officials tried to get a handle on the state s first major regional hotspot since its outbreak began to. The lines seen here show the paths taken by ships using sonar to map small sections of the ocean floor in greater detail. New rock is formed by magma at the mid ocean ridges and the ocean floor spreads out from this point. Most of the ocean bathymetry data comes from satellite measurements of gravity.

Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas. The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world. Topographic maps of the sea floor produced at a 1 100 000 scale that contain loran c rates bottom sediment types and known bottom obstructions.