Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have created a stunningly detailed map of the seafloor of the Monterey Canyon.
"We don’t realize how much of the picture we’ve been missing."of the largest submarine canyon off of the US Pacific coast.
The resulting map of the 7.5 miles-across underwater ravine, which extends to a depth of 2.5 miles below the surface, is so detailed that an individual crab can be spotted. Hi crab!The Monterey Canyon formed over millions of years as sediment slumped due to "storm waves, vibrations from fault activity, and random failures in the canyon walls," according to a statement, in what amounts to an "underwater avalanche.
"Repeated mapping surveys have given us a valuable new perspective to study the processes that sculpt the canyon," said Monica Wolfson-Schwehr, previously a postdoctoral fellow at MBARI and lead author of a new study about the scan published in the journal"This is vital context for understanding not only life on the ocean floor but also how the underwater infrastructure that we depend on may be vulnerable to underwater landslides," she added.
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Clearest-ever seafloor maps show deep-sea 'Grand Canyon' off US coast in stunning detailHarry is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science. He studied Marine Biology at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus) and after graduating started his own blog site 'Marine Madness,' which he continues to run with other ocean enthusiasts. He is also interested in evolution, climate change, robots, space exploration, environmental conservation and anything that's been fossilized. When not at work he can be found watching sci-fi films, playing old Pokemon games or running (probably slower than he'd like).
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