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"Ocean Floor" redirects here. For the 2001 song by Audio Adrenaline
Audio Adrenaline

Audio Adrenaline was a Grammy Award-winning Christian rock rock band that formed in the late 1980s at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky....
, see Lift (Audio Adrenaline album).


The seabed (also sea floor, seafloor, or ocean floor) is the bottom of the ocean
Ocean

An ocean is a major body of Seawater, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a World Ocean that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas....
. At the bottom of the continental slope is the continental rise, which is caused by sediment
Sediment

Sediment is any particulate matter that can be sediment transport by fluid dynamics, and which eventually is deposited.Sediments are most often transported by water transported by wind and glaciers....
 cascading down the continental slope. The seabed has been explored by submersibles such as Alvin
DSV Alvin

Alvin is a 16-ton, manned deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts....
 and to some extent scuba divers with special apparatuses.






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"Ocean Floor" redirects here. For the 2001 song by Audio Adrenaline
Audio Adrenaline

Audio Adrenaline was a Grammy Award-winning Christian rock rock band that formed in the late 1980s at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky....
, see Lift (Audio Adrenaline album).


The seabed (also sea floor, seafloor, or ocean floor) is the bottom of the ocean
Ocean

An ocean is a major body of Seawater, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a World Ocean that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas....
. At the bottom of the continental slope is the continental rise, which is caused by sediment
Sediment

Sediment is any particulate matter that can be sediment transport by fluid dynamics, and which eventually is deposited.Sediments are most often transported by water transported by wind and glaciers....
 cascading down the continental slope. The seabed has been explored by submersibles such as Alvin
DSV Alvin

Alvin is a 16-ton, manned deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts....
 and to some extent scuba divers with special apparatuses. "The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is a continential slope."

See also

  • Black smoker
    Black smoker

    A black smoker or sea vent, is a type of hydrothermal vent found on the ocean floor. They are formed in fields hundreds of meters wide when superheating water from below Earth's Crust comes through the ocean floor....
  • Bottom trawling
    Bottom trawling

    Bottom trawling is trawling along the sea floor.The scientific community divides bottom trawling into Benthic zone trawling and Demersal zone trawling....
  • Methane clathrate
    Methane clathrate

    Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate or methane ice, is a solid form of water that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure ....
  • Manganese nodule
    Manganese nodule

    Polymetallic nodules, also called manganese nodules, are rock concretions on the sea bottom formed of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxides around a core....
  • Research vessel
    Research vessel

    A research vessel is a ship designed and equipped to carry out research at sea. Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel, others require a dedicated vessel....
  • Seafloor massive sulfide deposits
    Seafloor massive sulfide deposits

    Seafloor massive sulfide deposits or SMS deposits, are modern equivalents of ancient volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits or VMS deposits....
  • Sediment Profile Imagery
    Sediment Profile Imagery

    Sediment Profile Imagery is an underwater technique for photographing the interface between the seabed and the overlying water. The technique is used to measure or estimate biological, chemical, and physical processes occurring in the first few centimetres of sediment, Groundwater, and the important benthic boundary layer of water....
     (SPI)


External links

  • - Public outreach site for explorations sponsored by the Office of Ocean Exploration.
  • , , - A rich collection of images, video, audio and .
  • - Explore the volcanoes of the Mariana Arc, Submarine Ring of Fire.