Welcome, Guest

Author Topic: Ocean floor - what is it?  (Read 4850 times)

Offline Scadsobees

  • Galactic Bee
  • ******
  • Posts: 3198
  • Gender: Male
  • Best use of smileys in a post award.
Ocean floor - what is it?
« on: September 30, 2009, 02:54:22 pm »
Off the coast of ireland on the ocean floor a giant grid larger than ireland.  Just a google maps thing or what?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&ll=53.994854,-16.391602&spn=7.082407,14.128418&t=h&z=6
Rick

Offline Kathyp

  • Global Moderator
  • Universal Bee
  • *******
  • Posts: 20371
  • Gender: Female
Re: Ocean floor - what is it?
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2009, 03:31:27 pm »
looks like washboarding.  maybe the way the current runs through there?
Someone really ought to tell them that the world of Ayn Rand?s novel was not meant to be aspirational.

Offline beecanbee

  • House Bee
  • **
  • Posts: 459
  • Gender: Male
Re: Ocean floor - what is it?
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2009, 10:44:22 pm »
Looks like a corn field in the winter to me.  Maybe it is Charlie the Tuna's garden.
"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."  Duncan Vandiver

A boy can do half the work of a man, but two boys do less, and three boys get nothing done at all. :)

(False) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.  - Samuel Johnson

Offline wayne

  • House Bee
  • **
  • Posts: 345
Re: Ocean floor - what is it?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2009, 11:03:02 pm »
  Looks like the overlap on the sonar passes.
I was born about 100 years too early, or to late.

Offline Cheryl

  • House Bee
  • **
  • Posts: 232
  • Gender: Female
  • top bar beekeeper
Re: Ocean floor - what is it?
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 12:27:43 am »
It's squared off, on the lower left. Fascinating.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

~ Aristotle

Offline beecanbee

  • House Bee
  • **
  • Posts: 459
  • Gender: Male
Re: Ocean floor - what is it?
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2009, 12:51:58 am »
If you use the google zoom bar - you can drill in for a closer look.  The ridges appear to be about 8 to 10 miles apart.  (A bit more than a corn field.)
"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."  Duncan Vandiver

A boy can do half the work of a man, but two boys do less, and three boys get nothing done at all. :)

(False) Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.  - Samuel Johnson