29°S Overlap Zone

29°S Overlap Zone

Color-shaded bathymetric relief map, illustrated from the northeast. High-resolution 10-km-wide SeaBeam 2000 bathymetric swaths are overlaid onto the wider (24 km) GLORI-B swaths. This was the first expedition in which this modified GLORIA system collected swath bathymetry. The southwestern margin of the Easter microplate is digitized from hand-contoured SeaMARC II data. The regional data south of 30°S are derived from satellite altimetry data. [From Hey et al. (1995).]

 

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