OCS 1005 Chapter : Chapter 4 (Exam 1) Ocean Basins
15 Mar 2019
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Instrument general mounted on the hull of a ship. 2 were updated and they were using the wrong version: the mine sweeper got stuck on the reef and had to be cut into pieces. Shelf break: the area where we change from the continental shelf to the continental slope is the shelf break, have distinct features such as submarine canyons. Spreading center with a very fast spread rate (like eat pacific rise) has a much smoother profile because features are spread over a greater area. Jack corliss, a marine geologist noticed that rocks he was analyzing from the mid. Seamounts and guyots: a lot of these abyssal hills begin as seamounts, seamounts: volcanic projections that do not reach the ocean surface, guyot: former seamounts that have flat tops and may have reached the surface and been eroded. Island arcs are only formed in areas where to oceanic plates converge. Form as masses of magma reach the sea floor.
