Caribbean Sea Floor Topography

Colors denote depth below sea level and elevation on land.

Caribbean sea floor topography. Multibeam sonar map of the seamounts. Box 6000 binghamton new york 13902 6000 u sa. The caribbean sea floor thomas w. It is approximately 1 063 000 square miles 2 753 000 square km in extent.

14 99995 75 00005 15 00005 74 99995. The caribbean sea floor is divided into five basins separated from each other by underwater ridges and mountain ranges. It consists of several basinal areas from west. Learn more about the caribbean sea in this article.

Ocean topography off the southeast portion of the united states. Asterisk location of the january 12 2010 earthquake. Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced. Cayman trench also called bartlett deep or bartlett trough submarine trench on the floor of the western caribbean sea between jamaica and the cayman islands it extends from the windward passage at the southeastern tip of cuba toward guatemala the relatively narrow trough trends east northeast to west southwest and has a maximum depth of 25 216 feet 7 686 m the deepest point in the.

Warm moist trade winds blow consistently from the east creating both rain forest and semi arid climates across the region. Sea surface temperature readings. Bold numbers are the years of moderately large larger than about m7 historical earthquakes written next to their approximate location. 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.

Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as. Caribbean sea suboceanic basin of the western atlantic ocean lying between latitudes 9 and 22 degrees n and longitudes 89 and 60 degrees w. Scientists used multibeam bathymetric data to create a 3 d view of a portion of the charleston bump. Map of the north american caribbean tectonic plate boundary.

Researchers have built a detailed map of the ocean floor s topography by using satellites to spot subtle watery lumps on the ocean s surface. Atlantic ocean water enters the caribbean through the anegada passage lying between the lesser antilles and virgin islands and the windward passage located between cuba and haiti. Introduction the floor of the caribbean sea figs 3 1 3 2 is essen tially oceanic. Caribbean sea topographic map elevation relief.

A topographic representation of the sea floor around the charleston bump.