Geol 1345 Lab 2B Essays

The lower shore, or low tide zone, is mostly submerged underwater. The most noticeable difference of this sub-region is the large diversity of different types of seaweeds. Organisms found in this zone are generally less adapted to periods of dryness. The creatures are generally the largest and most complex organisms on the shore as there are more sources of food as marine vegetation flourishes.

The youngest oceanic crust is located along the mid-ocean ridges where new crust is formed when the old crust is pushed away from mid – ocean ridges as a result of the seafloor spreading.

The depths of the ocean is unknown to Ark, but they believe that since some parts of the ocean glow some underwater canyons go down to mantle or even the outer core. The Ocean makes up forty percent of the planet.

The Sublittoral is the region of the ocean below the low tide limit and extends all the way to the edge of the continental shelf. This zone is submerged permanently despite the turn of the tides and the intra/interspecific competition for space is extreme. Organisms in this region rarely experience intense sun or air exposure and organisms such as blue

The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with water depths exceeding 8,400 meters which is actually the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean and the deepest point not in the Pacific Ocean. In the Pacific trenches are located in places where one tectonic plate subducts or slides under another one. However, in the Atlantic trenches such as this one is formed

Pitch black, dead quiet and seemingly desolate, the deep sea resembles that of a far off alien world. Until recent advancements in technology, little to none has been known about the deep sea. Far beyond the natural reach of humans, only highly expensive submersibles have visited the ocean’s deepest and darkest locations. In the Pacific Northwest, an eerie 7-mile venture underwater will take you to the deepest spot on the planet, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

Permin Land Formation: It is dominated by medium-to fine-grained well-sorted and rounded sandstone (Higgins et al, 1991). There are also dolomite and siltstone interbed and features like wave-ripple lamination, flat and low-angle lamination as well as shallow trough & tabular crossbedding are also present indicating a shallow marine depositional environment. The thickness of Permin Land Formation is up to 50m (Higgins et al, 1991).

Water is around 800 times denser than air and much heavier. This is why only 5% of our oceans have been explored. The deepest part of the ocean is still unseen by humans. Everything in the deep ocean is under great pressure. At any depth in the ocean the weight of the water above pushes on any object below it. The deeper we go the more harmful to our bodies this can be. For every

The off-shore marine environment changes intensively with the change in the ocean depth. There are three distinctive zones that can be classified along the depth which is the Epipelagic which extends from the sea surface to a depth of 200 meters, the mesopelagic which extends from a depth of 200 meters to a depth of a 1000 meters and then the Deep sea which extends from a depth of a 1000 meters to the sea floor (Castro & Huber, 2010). The Deep sea can then be divided into a further three zones (Figure 01) Bathypelagic which extends from a depth of a 1000 meters to 4000 meters, Abyssopelagic which extends from a depth of 4000 meters to 6000 meters and then the Hadopelagic which extends which extends from a depth of 6000 meters to the sea floor (Castro & Huber, 2010).

The maximum depth is 210 feet (64 m) and occurs in the eastern basin. Average depths in the basins are: western, 24 feet (7.3 m); central, 60 feet (18.3 m); and eastern, 80 feet (24.4 m).

The large, beautiful bodies of water are home to an infinite number of strange creatures and bewildering phenomena. Oceans make up about three-fifths of the earth and yet we have little idea about what lies in those darkened depths. There are many mysteries of the oceans that still have no explanation. To start with, scattered around oceans there trenches, incidentally all of them are approximately seven miles deep.

The deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean is the Puerto Rico Trench, which is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The middle of the Atlantic Ocean is the Mid-Atlantic ridge, which is not the deepest part of the ocean, therefore makes the statement of my friend incorrect. Ocean floor can be divided into three different parts, which includes the continental margins, deep-ocean basins, and the mid-ocean ridge. Continental margins are usually found in the shallow areas that are closer to the continents, and with the Atlantic Ocean, it is at the East Coast of the US. Deep-ocean basins are the deep water areas and are further away from the continents, and it is found between the continental margin in the East Coast and the Mid-Atlantic

Included in the drawings will be areas of high and low salinity, a continental shelf, a continental slope, abyssal plains, and the mid-oceanic ridge. Students will gather in groups of two to Pair and Share their drawings. Students will use this time to correct any mislabels on their pictures. Also, students will create one map between the two of them that will be turned in at the end of the activity.

Below the barrier layer is the bottom layer, referred to as the deep ocean. It averages about 3 kilometres (2 miles) in

Depth of water: The amount of water will be changed by 1 cm for every data point. (There are 9) This will be measured in height in order to get the most accurate