Physiographic Map Of The Sea Floor

Physiographic chart of the sea floor.
Physiographic map of the sea floor. A rift valley runs down the middle of the ridge or rise. Note the orientation of north america wrt the equator of the time. Sea level during the paleozoic throughout most of the paleozoic 600 225 ma sea level was high widely flooding continents as shown in the maps above. Look at the atlantic ocean and find the mid atlantic ridge.
An excellent primary student reference tool or project chart for any oceanography course the chart displays all major physiographic features of the sea floor and identifies over 100 of them. Land is dark shallow seas are lightly shaded. This is a divergent plate boundary. Follow the steps below to label and complete your map.
Physiographic chart of the sea floor part 2 directions. Physiographic chart of the sea floor. Do not roll your project paper step 1 shading ocean floor features shade each of the following ocean floor feature a different color on your map. The publication of heezen and tharp s physiographic map of the north atlantic in 1957 was the first map of the sea floor that enabled the general public to begin to visualize what the ocean floor really looked like.
One color for ridges and or rises shade only the top line of each a second color fracture zones a third color trenches step 2 plotting volcanoes using the list provided plot each of the active volcanoes on your chart. World ocean floor map heinrich caesar berann the father of the modern cartographic panorama painted the first in a series of plan oblique physiographic maps of the ocean floor for marie tharp and bruce heezan in 1967.