Google Earth Age Of Ocean Floor
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Google earth age of ocean floor. This kmz file displays the age of the ocean floor in google earth. Google earth released a new feature on june 8 2011 world oceans day that shows five percent of the ocean s floors with a resolution of about 100 meters 109 yards. Turning off age of ocean floor display. Make use of google earth s detailed globe by tilting the map to save a perfect 3d view or diving into street view for a 360 experience.
It was built to help understand the evolution of the earth s modern oceans across geological time. Please let us know if that helps. In order to map the ocean floor columbia s lamont doherty earth observatory has aggregated twenty years of data from almost 500 ship cruises and 12 different institutions. Earth continental geology by era and sea floor physiography for google earth the earth continental geology by era kmz file 802kb references a set of tiled gif imagery representing earths continental geology colored by geological era and grayshade sea floor imagery compiled by the us geological survey.
From studying the oxygen isotopes of the shells of microfossils in these cores scientists were able to begin studying the earth s past climates in a study known as paleoclimatology. Ask a how to question google earth pro desktop windows. Launch wasm multiple threaded launch wasm single threaded learn more about google earth. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left.
The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. If you re looking at the web browser version of google earth there is a seafloor age overlay there that you can turn off also. Deep ocean drilling and radiometric dating in the late 1960s gave an accurate stratigraphy and precise date of the ocean floor.