GLY150: INTRODUCTION TO OCEANOGRAPHY University of North Carolina Wilmington

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Lecture Outline

Marine Provinces

I. Marine Provinces

A. Continental Margins

1. Passive Margin (Atlantic-type)

a. Shelf
b. Slope

1. Submarine canyons
2. Turbidity currents

c. Rise

1. Deep sea fans
2. Mud waves
3. Western boundary undercurrent

2.  Active (Pacific-type)

a. Trenches

B. Deep Ocean Basins

1. Abyssal hills
2. Abyssal plains
3. Mid Ocean ridges and rises

a. Fast spreading morphology
b. Slow spreading morphology
c. Transform faults
d.  Fracture zones
e.  Hydrothermal systems

C. Intraplate Features

1. Seamounts
2.  Guyots
3.  Ocean Islands

Some helpful links relevant to these lectures:
Seafloor Topography from Satellite Altimetry
Dive and Discover: Expeditions to the Seafloor

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