The Deepest Segments Of The Ocean Floor Are Found

The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found covered by clay and the skeletal remains of microplankton.

The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found.

In trenches associated with subduction zones. In the geographic centers of abyssal plains c. These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. As compared to freshwater saline ocean water is and therefore provides support to floating objects.

In the geographic centers of abyssal plains c. The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found. The deepest segments of the ocean floor are found. Along mid ocean ridges b.

More typical deep sea rates are on the order of several centimeters per 1 000 years. In trenches associated with passive margins. In trenches associated with subduction zones. Most of the igneous rocks within oceanic abyssal plains are denser.

Long mid ocean ridges b. In the geographic centers of abyssal plains. In trenches associated with passive margins d. 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.

Oceanic trenches are a distinctive morphological feature of convergent plate boundaries along which lithospheric plates move towards each other at rates that vary from a few millimeters to over ten centimeters per year.