Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bathymetry

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Original – Animation reveals oceanic floors and seabeds. Continental shelves appear mostly by a depth of 140 meters, mid-ocean ridges by 3000 meters, abyssal plains from 3000 to 6000 meters, and oceanic trenches at depths beyond 6000 meters.

Reason: Informative animation by NASA reveals the ocean floors and seabeds as the water level drops. Water depth is displayed as a parameter. To see the animation in full resolution you may need to change its display setting to "source".
Articles in which this image appears: Bathymetry
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology
Creator: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Horace Mitchell and James O'Donoghue