The abyssal plains are flat or very gently sloping areas of the deep ocean floor.
Very flat part of ocean floor.
The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is seafloor spreading and the continental slope.
Rift zone site of crust formationabyssal plain very flat part of ocean floorsubmarine canyon part of the continental marginguyot flat topped underwater mountain.
Abyssal plains generally lie.
The ocean surface is vast and hides an entire world underneath it.
Bathymetry the shape of the ocean floor is largely a result of a process called plate tectonics the outer rocky layer of the earth includes about a dozen large sections called tectonic plates that are arranged like a spherical jig saw puzzle floating on top of the earth s hot flowing mantle.
Seabed contains several hundred years worth of cobalt and nickel.
The abyssal plains are flat or very gently sloping areas of the deep ocean floor.
Though people have traveled on the ocean for millennia people have explored only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor.
Plate tectonics and the ocean floor.
They are among the earth s flattest and smoothest regions and the least explored.
The ocean floor is sometimes called the final frontier of the modern era.