Total Sediment Thickness of the Worlds Oceans and Marginal Seas
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/sedthick9.jpg

National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA


This annotated global map show the total sediment thickness of the world's ocean basins. It may be useful in a discussion about how sedimentary transport processes and tectonics interact to create areas of high sediment thickness, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean.

This description of a site outside SERC has not been vetted by SERC staff and may be incomplete or incorrect. If you have information we can use to flesh out or correct this record let us know.


This resource is referenced here:Keywords: cartography, reading maps