Topography Of Pacific Ocean

It is triangular in shape. Its shape is roughly triangular with its apex in the north at the bering strait. Data for the area seaward of the continental slope (~2000 m depth) were obtained primarily from the u.s.

Altimeter data have been instrumental in observing the rise and fall of the el niño and la niña and, more recently, the pacific decadal oscillation. It extends from the arctic ocean in the north to the southern ocean (or, depending on definition, to antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of asia and australia in the west and the americas in the east. The main features of the pacific ocean floor are the continental slopes, which drop from about 200 meters to several thousand meters over a distance of a few hundred kilometers, the abyssal plains—exceedingly flat and from 4,000 meters to 6,000 meters deep, volcanic seamounts and islands, and trenches at subduction zones that are up to 11,000 meters deep.

The rio grande rise comes up to about 650 m;

In the tropics it spans a zonal distance of 20,000 km from malacca strait to panama. Altimeter data have been instrumental in observing the rise and fall of the el niño and la niña and, more recently, the pacific decadal oscillation. The main features of the pacific ocean floor are the continental slopes, which drop from about 200 m to several thousand metres over a distance of a few hundred kilometres; The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps, abyssal plains, trenches, seamounts, basins, plateaus, canyons, and some guyots.