l2 morphology and oceanic water
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IB Oceans and their Coastal Margins
B1 – Introduction to Oceans: Morphology of Oceans & Ocean Water
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MORPHOLOGY OF OCEANSB1 – Introduction to Oceans
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Seamounts – extinct volcanic cones that lie below the surface.
Guyot - a flat topped volcano that once reached the surface but later subsided.
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Abysall Plain - at the edge of the continental slope. These plains cover large areas of the sea floor at depths of between 4000m and 6000m. They are generally flat and featureless.
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Abysall Plain - at the edge of the continental slope. These plains cover large areas of the sea floor at depths of between 4000m and 6000m. They are generally flat and featureless.
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Continental Slope- the steeply sloping area of the seabed that stretches from the continental shelf to the abyssal plain.
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Submarine Canyon – steep sided valley on the sea floor of a continental slope.
• Often (but not always) found as extensions to larger rivers.
• Submarine canyons are thought to be major conduits for sediment movement from the continents into the deep-sea.
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Ocean Trenches
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Ocean Trenches• The deepest part of the oceans. Arc-shaped
depressions, formed at subduction zones where one tectonic plate plunges under another one.
• Usually a dense oceanic plate going under a less dense continental one.
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Mid-Ocean Ridges
• The largest feature of the ocean floor.
• Linear belt of submarine mountains.
• New magma forces its way up between two plates and pushes them apart.
• The rate of spreading at the mid Atlantic ridge is 5 cm a year.
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Continental Shelf
• Relatively flat area of seabed, stretching from the land to the edge of the continental slope.
• The continental shelf is less than 250m deep and may be up to 70 km wide.
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OCEANIC WATERB1 – Introduction to Oceans
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Variations in Ocean Temperature
• Temperature in the oceans is not always constant.
• Ocean temperature not only varies through the seasons but also by latitude.
• Sea surface temperature usually recorded remotely by satellite.
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Impact of currents can be seen:- Western side of continents shows cooler water
heading towards equator.
Sea Surface Temperature
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• Ocean water also varies with depth:
– Temperature
– Salinity
• Ocean waters varies seasonally up to depths of 500 – 1000 metres.
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-------• A boundary
usually occurs at a depth of between 200 and 800m called the thermocline; below that surface waters don’t mix.
• 90% of the total volume of ocean water is found below the thermocline.
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Other Changes with Depth• Density of ocean water increases constantly
with decreasing temperature until the water freezes.
• Ocean water is saline therefore its normal freezing temperature is -1.94°C; significantly cooler than pure water.
• As sea water freezes it usually rejects some of the salt; therefore is only 1% saline; where as sea water is 3.5% saline.
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• Salinity and density show the opposite trend to water as the depth of ocean water increases.
• Temperature declines with increasing depth but salinity and water density both increase.
• Salinity show a rapid increase at the same time temperature falls rapidly. This increase of salinity is called the halocine.
• At the same depth the water density also increases rapidly in the same zone which is referred to as the pycnocline.
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Tropical Areas
• These changes are most noticeable at the tropical areas.
• The surface temperatures are warmer in the equatorial areas.
• At great depths the temperature of ocean water shows very little variation.
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Changes with Latitude - Salinity
• Average salinity is 35 parts per thousand.
• Concentrations of salt are higher in warm seas, due to high rates of evaporation of water.
• In polar seas where there is an input of fresh water from rivers salinity is low.