Google Earth Ocean Floor Lines

Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a.

Google earth ocean floor lines.

Adding placemarks and lines to google earth. With the advent of online mapping tools such as google earth exploring our planet is easier than ever before. Adding a photo to a place. Weirdness on the ocean floor.

The only true things are the huge general shapes of the continental shelves and the giant undersea mountain ranges. Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull. This map was created by a user. Viewing your story as a presentation and sharing it with a.

This week google updated. With legions of people around the world now exploring the seafloor many are noticing locations along the ocean bottom marked by mysterious formations of grid like artifacts. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. Recently many of these tools have been updated to provide detailed seafloor mapping data or bathymetry.

Learn how to create your own. In fact google ocean an extension of map program google earth was merely displaying a data artifact from the sonar method that oceanographers use to map the seafloor. All those straight lines with identical patterns that you see crisscrossing the ocean floor in google maps or google earth are fake. There s some odd sightings on the ocean floor thanks to the much improved ocean surface depth images that were added to google earth and maps last week.