There are several world maps that show bathymetry out on the internets available for download. Last week I came across one I had not seen yet. GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) is an ...

BrianR at Clastic Detritus brought my attention to a new wonderful bathymetric map of the globe. Despite his questionable loyalty to volcanoes, Brian knows a good map when he sees one and I agree that ...

Our knowledge of the depth and shape of the Arctic Ocean floor – its bathymetry – is insufficient. Owing to year-round sea-ice coverage and the cost of research in this remote region, much of the ...

No audio available for this content. Fugro is supporting NF-GEBCO Seabed 2030, a global initiative to produce a definitive, high-resolution bathymetric map of the entire world’s ocean floor by the ...

Despite its longtime popularity as a local surfing treasure, much has yet to be discovered about what the ocean at WindanSea looks like below the waves — until now. The WindanSea Surf Club junior team ...

I'm using this week's Sea-Floor Sunday to show a few simple maps of the region around the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland. I don't have a photographic memory of the Earth's surface so I ...

The Gulf of Mexico has had an incredible history, leaving scientists to puzzle over a landscape peppered with channels, canyons, domes, pockmarks, faults, and mini-basins. Now, with the recent release ...

They say a rising tide lifts all boats, but what about a rising data set? The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association is nearing completion of a bathymetric map to help local fishermen catch more ...

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Storm surge is one of the primary threats when hurricanes make landfall, and there are a lot of factors involved in how high the surge can get. Some of those factors include wind speed, minimum ...

This is a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) map of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake in Titan's southern hemisphere. Radar altimeter tracks are plotted over SAR data and show that Ontario lies in a shallow ...