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Sea views: mapping the ocean floor

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Geographical

Publication Date
2017-08-30

If all the water in the seas suddenly disappeared, we would be shocked by the strange, new world of seamounts, gullies, sheer cliffs and plains that would be revealed – some in places where they would not be expected. That’s because less than 15 per cent of the seafloor is mapped in reliable detail, a fact that non-profit mapping outfit, the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), wants to change.

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http://geographical.co.uk/nature/oceans/item/2377-sea-views