Chapter 14 Oceanography

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Bathymetry

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the measurement of ocean depths and the charting of the shape or topography of the ocean floor

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An underwater vehicle built of strong materials to resist pressure.

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Continental Margin

a boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust

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Continental Shelf

A gently sloping, shallow area of the ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of a continent

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Continental Slope

a steep incline of the ocean floor leading down from the edge of the continental shelf

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Submarine Canyon

a canyon/ crevice on the bottom of the oceans often at the mouths of rivers...thought to be formed by turbidity currents

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Turbidity Current

dense current that carries large amounts of sediment down the continental crust

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Continental Rise

The gently sloping section of the continental margin located between the continental slope and the abyssal plain

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Ocean Basin Floor

area of the deep-ocean floor between the continental margin and the oceanic ridge

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the flat, broad region of the ocean floor with almost no slope and covered by sediments

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