The grid lines are most likely a processing artifact.
Long lines on ocean floor.
The pattern you are seeing is typical for a research vessel surveying a patch of ocean floor.
This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.
Long lines formed outside a health resource center in a new jersey township thursday where officials tried to get a handle on the state s first major regional hotspot since its outbreak began to.
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.
Most of the ocean bathymetry data comes from satellite measurements of gravity.
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Mountains plains channels canyons exposed rocks and sediment covered areas.
The gravity data are cross checked against ship sonar tracks from a variety of vessels.
A symmetrical pattern of positive and negative magnetic lines emanates from the mid ocean ridge.
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.
Topographic maps of the sea floor produced at a 1 100 000 scale that contain loran c rates bottom sediment types and known bottom obstructions.
This product is intended to aid fishermen and those needing seafloor features and potential fishing grounds.
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 lack of weathering and erosion in most areas however allows geological processes to be seen more clearly on.
The area above is one of the more frequently cited underwater city locations in online lore.
New rock is formed by magma at the mid ocean ridges and the ocean floor spreads out from this point.
The ocean floor has the same general character as the land areas of the world.
The gridded section shown above may look like streets in a small town but is over 100 miles wide.
Exploration of the seafloor and the earth s crust.