Sediment can accumulate as slowly as 0 1 millimeter 0 04 inch per 1 000 years in the middle of the ocean where only wind blown material is deposited to as fast as 1 meter 3 25 feet per year along continental margins.
The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.
More typical deep sea rates are on the order of several centimeters per 1 000 years.
In the geographic centers of abyssal plains c.
In trenches associated with subduction zones.
The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.
The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.
Long mid ocean ridges b.
As compared to freshwater saline ocean water is and therefore provides support to floating objects.
In trenches associated with passive margins.
In the geographic centers of abyssal plains c.
The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.
In trenches associated with subduction zones.
In trenches associated with passive margins d.
In trenches associated with passive margins d.
Most of the igneous rocks within oceanic abyssal plains are denser.
In trenches associated with subduction zones.
The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found covered by clay and the skeletal remains of microplankton.
These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor.