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continental shelf | континентальный (материковый) шельф |
continental slope | континентальный (материковый) склон |
submarine canyon | подводное ущелье (каньон) |
continental rise | континентальное (материковое) подножие |
submarine plateau | подводное плато |
abyssal plain | абиссальная равнина |
seamount | морская гора |
spreading ridge | спрединговый (срединно-океанический) хребет |
trench | желоб |
island arc | островная дуга |
trough | впадина, мульда |
guyot | гайот |
continental side | континентальная сторона, склон |
to strip off | обнажать |
sheath | оболочка, покров |
plateau | плато |
peak | вершина горы, пик |
to submerge | погружать |
rim | край |
to descend | опускаться; нисходить |
slope | склон; крыло складки |
cleft | трещина; расселина |
turbid | мутный |
surroundings | окружение; среда |
mountain chain | горная цепь |
tableland | плоскогорье, плато |
1.2 Read the text «The Ocean Floor». Pay attention to the diagram. Fulfill the exercises after the text. (R.P – 8.1.1)
Oceans and their seas hold 97% of all surface water, and cover some 71% of the Earth to an average depth of 12,400 ft. (3700 m). Stripping off this watery sheath would reveal valleys, plateaus, peaks and plains. We show ten features of the ocean floor.
Continental shelf - a continent’s true but submerged and gently sloping rim, descending to an average depth of 650 ft. (200 m). Continental shelves occupy about 7.5% of the ocean floor.
Continental slope - a relatively steep slope descending from the continental shelf. Such slopes occupy about 8.5% of the ocean floor.
Submarine canyon - a deep cleft in the continental slope, cut by turbid river water flowing out to the sea.
Continental rise - a gentle slope below the continental slope.
Submarine plateau - a high seafloor tableland.
Abyssal plain - a sediment-covered deep-sea plain about 11,500-18,000ft (3450-5400 m) below sea level.
Seamount - a submarine volcano 3300ft. (1000 m) or more above its surroundings. Guyots are flat-topped seamounts that were once volcanic islands.
Spreading ridge - a submarine mountain chain generally 10,000 ft. (3000 m) above the abyssal plain. A huge system of such ridges extends more than 37,000 ft. (60000 m) through the oceans. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge surfaces in places as volcanic islands such as Iceland and Ascension Island.
Trench - a deep, steep-sided trough in an abyssal plain. At 35,840 ft. (10752 m) below sea level (deep enough to drown Mt. Everest). The Pacific’s Marianas Trench is the deepest part of any ocean.
Island arc - a curved row of volcanic islands, usually on the continental side of a trench.
(Lambert “The Field Guide to Geology” 1988, Cambridge University Press)
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