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Oceans
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Oceans• 71% of Earth’s surface• Pacific – largest, deepest• Atlantic• Indian – mostly in Southern Hemisphere• Arctic – smallest, shallowest, entirely in
Northern Hemisphere
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Ocean FloorContinental margins, Ocean basin floor, Mid-ocean ridge
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Mid-Ocean Ridges
• Near the center of ocean basins• Formed by diverging plate boundaries• Zone of new crust formation• Collectively the longest mt. range on Earth -
42,000 miles• Much quiet volcanic activity – magma rises to
fill space and cool as plates spread apart.
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Mid-Ocean Ridges
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Mid-Ocean Ridges
Hydrothermal Vents• Seawater seeps into crust, gets superheated &
saturated with minerals.• Ejected through gaps along mid-ocean ridge• When it hits the cold ocean water, minerals get
deposited in large masses – copper, silver, gold, iron, zinc, sulfur, & others.
• Source of energy & nutrients that supports large colonies of life far from surface & sunlight.
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Hydrothermal Vents
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Hydrothermal Vents
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Continental Margins
• Transition zone between continents & ocean basin floor
• In Atlantic, not associated with plate boundaries, so few earthquakes or volcanoes.
• In Pacific, ocean plates forced beneath continental plates, lots of earthquake & volcanic activity – Ring of Fire
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Continental Margins
Continental shelf• Gently sloping zone
from shore.• Shallow (exposed
during ice ages)• Lots of minerals, oil,
& natural gas.• Lots of sediment,
especially near mouths of rivers.
• Zone of sedimentary rock formation
• Lots of fish/feeding areas.
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Continental Margins
Continental slope• Steeper than shelf• Boundary between
continental crust & ocean crust
• Submarine canyons cut into shelf from slope, form when turbidity currents (dense, sediment-rich water) flow downhill.
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Continental Margins
Continental Rise• Gentler incline, farther offshore and not as
steep as cont. slope.
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Ocean Basin FloorBetween continental margin & mid-ocean ridge
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Ocean Basin Floor
Trenches• Long, narrow,
deepest part of oceans
• Formed at converging plate boundaries, ocean plate is denser & sinks beneath continental plate
• Lots of earthquakes & volcanoes
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Ocean Basin FloorAbyssal plains• Very flat, very
deep• Formed as
sediments settle out or get deposited by turbidity currents, fill in deeper parts of ocean floor.
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Ocean Basin Floor
• Seamounts – peaks of underwater, growing volcanoes, form islands if they break the surface
• Guyots – volcanic islands erode flat, sink beneath surface