Sea-Floor Sunday #41: Bathymetric map of Mediterranean Sea

Although the release of the ‘Ocean’ feature in newest GoogleEarth was last week, I still have a few other draft posts with great bathymetric images I wanted to get out. Plus, I haven’ t had the time to really explore the GoogleEarth sea-floor features. I will certainly be including those images in this series in the coming months so stay tuned.

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This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday is a really nice synthesis map of bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea. Click on the map below or here to go to the page where you can see more.

credit: Loubrieu B., J. Mascle & MediMap Group (N. Chamot-Rooke), 2007. Morpho-Bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea, CIESM and Ifremer Special Publications (http://www.ciesm.org/marine/morphomap.htm)

This is a nice resource if you are interested in the complex plate tectonics of the Mediterranean area. The map also includes a few nice perspective images as well.

Perspective image of northwestern Mediterranea Sea (credit: http://www.ciesm.org/marine/morphomap.htm)

Look at all those submarine canyons cutting across the shelf edge … very cool.

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