Ocean floor

Deep-Sea Sample Repository
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Deep-Sea Sample Repository is both an archive of sediment and rocks from beneath the ocean floor, and an archive of the digital data pertaining to the material.
Ridge Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis
Mutibeam Bathymetry data from the global Mid-Ocean Ridge with access to related data.
MGDS: Ridge 2000 Data Portal
Access cruise information and data collected during Ridge2000 funded projects.

- August 13, 2009
“Drain the Ocean” will be aired Sunday, August 16, 2 p.m. on the National Geographic channel. The special put computer-generated imagery and digital mapping technology to imaginative use through showing what the oceans would look like if all their water was emptied through an imaginary drain. The result would be a landscape far more dramatic than anything on dry land, including a 40,000 mile-long mountain range, the world’s deepest canyon and widest plains, and bizarre, bioluminescent life forms





