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Tag: Ocean floor

The ocean floor is explored in this collection of accurate, accessible science graphics, designed to make understanding seafloor features and processes clear and engaging. These visuals illustrate mid-ocean ridges, trenches, abyssal plains, seamounts, and spreading centers, showing how plate tectonics and volcanic activity shape the seafloor. Perfect for educators, students, and geoscience enthusiasts, this ocean floor graphic collection turns complex marine geology concepts into visually rich, easy-to-grasp resources for teaching and learning about Earth’s underwater landscapes.

Oceanic Large-Igneous Provinces

Age of the oceanic lithosphere with superposed oceanic Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs).

Age of the oceanic lithosphere, from Straume et al. (2019), with superposed oceanic Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) from Torsvik & Cocks (2016) coloured in light blue. NAIP: North Atlantic Igneous Province, HALIP: High Arctic Large Igneous Province. The Scientific colour map ‘lajolla‘ is used to represent ocean-plate age accurately and to all readers.

  • Creator: Eivind O. Straume
  • This version: 03.09.2021
  • License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  • Specific citation: This graphic by Eivind O. Straume from Straume et al. (2019) is available via the open-access s-Ink repository.
  • Related reference: Related reference: Straume, E. O., Gaina, C., Medvedev, S., Hochmuth, K., Gohl, K., Whittaker, J. M., et al. (2019). GlobSed: Updated total sediment thickness in the world’s oceans. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 1756– 1772. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008115
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North East Atlantic Ocean Circulation

Sketched ocean circulation pattern in the NE Atlantic Ocean.

Sketched ocean circulation pattern in the NE Atlantic Ocean, from Straume (2020). Note how the circulation closely follows the bathymetry. Shown are warm (red) and cold (blue) surface currents, warm (orange) and cold (cyan) intermediate currents, and deep currents (purple). The bathymetry is the GEBCO 2014 grid (Weatherall et al., 2015) and the currents are modified from Newton and Huuse (2017). GSR: Greenland – Scotland Ridge. The Scientific colour map ‘oslo‘ is used to represent bathymetry accurately and to all readers.

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North East Atlantic Ocean Evolution

Opening of the North East Atlantic Ocean and dynamic support from the Iceland mantle plume.

Opening of the North East Atlantic Ocean and dynamic support from the Iceland mantle plume. The Scientific colour maps ‘oleron’ and lajolla‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

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Sediment thickness

Total sediment thickness of the World’s oceans (GlobSed).

Total sediment thickness of the World’s oceans (GlobSed). The Scientific colour map ‘lapaz‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

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Ocean-plate age

Global seafloor age visualised on a custom Interrupted Mollweide map projection.

Maps of the age of oceanic plates, which varies between 0 and around 200 Ma due to ongoing plate motion and recycling (i.e., ocean-plate tectonics). Global sea-floor age data from Müller et al. (1997) visualised on a custom Interrupted Mollweide map projection from Crameri et al. (2020) focussing on the World’s oceans. The Scientific colour map ‘batlow‘ is used to represent data accurately and to all readers.

  • Creator: Fabio Crameri
  • This version: 20.08.2021
  • License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  • Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri from Crameri et al. (2022) is available via the open-access s-Ink.org repository.
  • Related references:
    Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and E.O. Straume (2022, Pre-print), Effective high-quality science graphics from s-Ink.org, EarthArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31223/X51P78
    Müller, R. D., et al. (1997). “Digital isochrons of the world’s ocean floor.” J. Geophys. Res. 102(B2): 3211-3214.
    Crameri, F., V. Magni, M. Domeier, G.E. Shephard, K. Chotalia, G. Cooper, C. Eakin, A.G. Grima, D. Gürer, A. Király, E. Mulyukova, K. Peters, B. Robert, and M. Thielmann (2020), A transdisciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation, Nature Communications, 11, 3750. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17522-9
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