Indian Ocean Floor

Plate tectonics and the ocean floor.

Indian ocean floor.

Those terrigenous sediments occur mostly on the continental shelves slopes and rises and they merge into abyssal plains. It is the smallest geologically youngest and physically most complex of the world s three major oceans. The 1000 3000 and 5000 m isobaths are shown and regions less than. It is bounded by asia to the north africa to the west and australia to the east.

The pacific atlantic indian arctic and southern. A new scan of the indian ocean floor for malaysia airlines flight 370 has searched nearly 31 000 square miles since january 2018 without finding any sign of the wreckage. The immense load of suspended sediments from the rivers emptying into the indian ocean is the highest of the three oceans and nearly half of it comes from the indian subcontinent alone. The nippon foundation gebco seabed 2030 project has mapped one fifth of the world s ocean floor.

Topography of the indian ocean including major ridges and basins. Modified from tomczak and godfrey 1994. Indian ocean indian ocean bottom deposits. Indian ocean body of salt water covering approximately one fifth of the total ocean area of the world.

Choose between two suites aptly. The indian ocean is the third largest of the world s oceanic divisions covering 70 560 000 km 2 27 240 000 sq mi or 19 8 of the water on earth s surface. To the south it is bounded by the southern ocean or antarctica depending on the definition in use. It stretches for more than 6 200 miles 10 000 km between the southern tips of africa and australia and without its marginal seas has an area of about 28 360 000 square miles.

Along its core the indian ocean has some large marginal. Geographers divide the ocean into five major basins. The floor to ceiling windows in the underwater rooms at atlantis the palm look into the resort aquarium s ambassador lagoon filled with 65 000 sea creatures.