Our Ocean Facts will provide plenty of information about our world oceans. We will tell you here what you really should know about the oceans. First let's start with some basics! Facts about the Oceans The ocean is our life support system as the ocean regulates our climate, absorbs the da...
The Pacific is not only the biggest but also the deepest ocean with the deepest trenches.The average depth is about 3,800 m/ 12,467 ft. 7. TheChallenger Deepin the Mariana Trench, which is located to the West of the Philippines and north of New Guinea, is the deepest point in the P...
This would sink the vessel in no time, and the wreckage would be on the ocean bed in no time, or it would be dispersed by the strong Gulf Stream. The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has published about such undersea hydrates found in other places like the Blake Ridge area off the co...
Very small tube-shaped feet among the spines help them move slowly along the ocean floor. They come in just about every color, from black to white, red, orange, green, brown, purple, pink, yellow, blue, and gray. They range in size from about an inch in diameter up to 14 inches. ...
From the west, the Scotland-Greenland ridge distinguishes the Norwegian Sea from the North Atlantic Ocean. This ridge is 500 m deep and goes to 850 m only in some areas. Towards the northern side is the Jan Mayen and Mohns Ridge, which is 2000 m and has a few trenches going to 2600...
Volcanoes are found in association with midocean ridge systems (see seafloor spreading) and along convergent plate boundaries, such as around the Pacific Ocean's “Ring of Fire” (see plate tectonics), the ring of plate boundaries associated with volcanic island arcs and ocean trenches surrounding ...
1. Plates can move apartIf two plates are movingapartfrom each other, hot, molten rock flows up from the layers of mantle below the lithosphere. This magma comes out on the surface (mostly at the bottom of the ocean), where it is called lava. As the lava cools, it hardens to form ...
Interesting Fact: Out of all octopus species, only the cirrate (ear-like fins) Dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis) has been photographed within the oceanic trenches of the hadopelagic zone, at a staggering 6,957 metres below the surface (22,825 feet). ...
Melting ocean crust The water-soaked oceanic crust subducting beneath the continental crust in a subduction zone begins to melt at a depth of 100 to 250 km. Melting oceanic crusts creates plutons filled with molten rock. Recent scientific experiments suggest that the water-soaked basalt in the ...
Active zones of mid-ocean ridges and continent-to-continent rifting are examples of divergent boundaries. Convergent boundaries (destructive) occur where two plates slide toward each other to form either a subduction zone (one plate moving underneath the other) or a continental collision. At zones ...