Isolation and Analysis of Key Components of Seafloor Relief

Abstract

We are continuing to investigate several hypotheses regarding the processes that are responsible for forming the various components of seafloor relief and the composite seafloor roughness. We have put forward the hypothesis that the composite seafloor relief can be meaningfully divided into three or more distinctive spatial wavebands each of which can be related to different physical processes. Our goal is to understand the operative geological processes well enough to be able to better predict the complete seafloor/basement roughness characteristics where it has not been measured and for regions where it is difficult or impossible to measure accurately (e.g., buried basement relief).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA261635

Entities

People

  • Dennis E. Hayes

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Basements
  • Composite Materials
  • Databases
  • Frequency
  • High Resolution
  • Indian Ocean
  • Low Resolution
  • Ocean Ridges
  • Oceans
  • Power Spectra
  • Ridges
  • Roughness
  • Seabed
  • Short Wavelengths
  • South Atlantic Ocean

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design