Deep Water Waves Sea Floor

Even a tsunami wave can be nearly undetectable on the open ocean.

Deep water waves sea floor.

The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the puerto rico trench. The deep sea is a relatively mysterious and unknown part of the earth as only about 1 of the ocean floor has been explored by humans. When deep water waves move into shallow water they change into breaking waves. These areas are the hadopelagic zone.

Deep sea exploration has revealed varied landscapes which include volcanoes seamounts hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. This is also known as the abyssal zone. Shallow water waves figure 7 4b waves which interact with the sea floor are known as shallow water waves. Abyssopelagic zone 4 000 6 000m this is the zone past the continental slope the deep water just over the ocean bottom.

When the energy of the waves touches the ocean floor the water particles drag along the bottom and flatten their orbit fig. The action of someone tripping is similar to the interaction between a shallow water wave and the bottom of the ocean. Hadopelagic zone deep ocean trenches greater than 6 000m in some places there are trenches that are deeper than the surrounding ocean floor. Perspective view of the sea floor of the atlantic ocean and the caribbean sea.

The orbits of the water molecules are circular. It might be traveling 500 miles per hour 800 kilometers per hour but it has a very long wavelength and very little amplitude. In fact there have been more missions into space than journeys down to the greatest depths of the oceans.