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what are the relief features of the ocean

Answer 1

Major and Minor Ocean Relief Features

Table of Contents

1 Ocean Relief

1.1 Major Ocean Relief Features

1.2 Minor Ocean Relief Features

2 Continental Shelf

2.1 Width

2.2 Depth

2.3 Importance of continent shelves

3 Continental Slope

4 Continental Rise

5 Deep Sea Plain or Abyssal Plain

6 Oceanic Deeps or Trenches

7 Mid-Oceanic Ridges or Submarine Ridges

8 Abyssal Hills

9 Submarine Canyons

10 Atoll

11 Bank, Shoal and Reef

11.1 Bank

11.2 Shoal

11.3 Reef

12 Significance of Study of Oceanic Relief

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Ocean Relief

Ocean relief is largely due to tectonic, volcanic, erosional and depositional processes and their interactions.

Ocean relief features are divided into major and minor relief features.

Major Ocean Relief Features

Four major divisions in the ocean relief are:

the continental shelf,

the continental slope,

the continental rise,

the Deep Sea Plain or the abyssal plain.

Minor Ocean Relief Features

Ridges,

Hills,

Seamounts,

Guyots,

Trenches,

Canyons,

Sleeps,

Fracture zones,

Island arcs,

Atolls,

Coral reefs,

Submerged volcanoes and

Sea-scarps.

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