The area above is one of the more frequently cited underwater city locations in online lore.
Long lines on ocean floor.
Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.
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The pattern you are seeing is typical for a research vessel surveying a patch of ocean floor.
Exploration of the seafloor and the earth s crust.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
The lines seen here show the paths taken by ships using sonar to map small sections of the ocean floor in greater detail.
Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
This product is intended to aid fishermen and those needing seafloor features and potential fishing grounds.
The gravity data are cross checked against ship sonar tracks from a variety of vessels.
The lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on.
A symmetrical pattern of positive and negative magnetic lines emanates from the mid ocean ridge.
The gridded section shown above may look like streets in a small town but is over 100 miles wide.
The lines seen on the maps of the ocean floor such as seen on google earth are man made but made from data and do not actually exist on the ocean.
It just seems self evident that space would be a better way to virtually wire the internet than our current method of running really long cables slash shark buffets along the ocean floor.
The oceanic crust displays a pattern of magnetic lines parallel to the ocean ridges frozen in the basalt.
Most of the ocean bathymetry data comes from satellite measurements of gravity.
New rock is formed by magma at the mid ocean ridges and the ocean floor spreads out from this point.
The grid lines are most likely a processing artifact.