The Deepest Segments Of The Ocean Floor Are Found

The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.

The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.

Long mid ocean ridges b. In the geographic centers of abyssal plains. Sediment can accumulate as slowly as 0 1 millimeter 0 04 inch per 1 000 years in the middle of the ocean where only wind blown material is deposited to as fast as 1 meter 3 25 feet per year along continental margins. In trenches associated with passive margins d.

In trenches associated with subduction zones. In trenches associated with passive margins. In the geographic centers of abyssal plains c. Oceanic trenches are a distinctive morphological feature of convergent plate boundaries along which lithospheric plates move towards each other at rates that vary from a few millimeters to over ten centimeters per year.

More typical deep sea rates are on the order of several centimeters per 1 000 years. As compared to freshwater saline ocean water is and therefore provides support to floating objects. In the geographic centers of abyssal plains c. Most of the igneous rocks within oceanic abyssal plains are denser.

The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found covered by clay and the skeletal remains of microplankton. Along mid ocean ridges b. In trenches associated with subduction zones. These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor.

The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.