Nonlinear Analysis of Seafloor Topography,

Abstract

Large- and small-scale tectonism and volcanism shape seafloor topography near Mid-Ocean Ridges (MOR) and produce a variety of both regular and irregular morphological features. Large consistent features such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR), central valley, and crestal mountains, are superimposed by smaller and more irregular features such as ridge offsets, ridge-parallel faults, and volcanic constructions. Many of these features are observable on Sea Beam swath-collected bathymetry. Our long-term objective is to quantify regularities in seafloor morphology and determine which features are best described by purely stochastic processes, which are suitable for deterministic physical and predictive models, and which fall somewhere in between.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 19, 1996
Accession Number
ADA318458

Entities

People

  • Deborah K. Smith
  • Sarah A. Little

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bathymetry
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Filters
  • Images
  • Landforms
  • Nonlinear Analysis
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Ridges
  • Seabed
  • Side Looking Sonar
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Topography
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wavelet Transforms

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Seismology