bathymetry

Crescent city has a long history of being devastated by norcal quakes due the the bathymetry and costline profile.

The thermal state of tectonic plates, hot at the mid oceanic ridge and cold near continents, explains the observed bathymetry.

So it’s not necessarily related to this effort except that the new format may support gridded bathymetry data being encoded?

Detailed bathymetry is key to distinguish which one is closer to what happen in Nature.

The major differences in elevation/bathymetry are dominantly due to the density change that accompanies the change from continental crust to oceanic crust.

I was first exposed to multibeam bathymetry 25ish years ago and an acoustic camera at least 15 years ago.

For the ocean, Google Maps uses bathymetry data to synthesise shaded blue imagery.

It can also be referred to as bathymetry rather than underwater topography.

There are likely limitations imposed by the site bathymetry and other things we don't know about.

Because the slope of topography/bathymetry is so flat, relatively small changes in sea level (order of 10s-100s of meters) can dramatically change the connectivity of land (and oceans).

I'm not that familiar with the bathymetry[1] of the area, but I have been seeing reports that the locations are between 3000m and 6000m deep.

At least 30 years ago, and probably longer you could pick up books on bathymetry and arenology that described the physics of the situation and really gave dire warnings.

On the Appalachian Trail map the Title of the Legend is "Bathymetry".

In the end, the "free air anomaly" measurement you'd be correcting things to is an bathymetry map, to the first order.

I think Bathymetry is one of the layers on the map, which provides "topographical" lines in the ocean.

[1] Why is "bathymetry" not in Chrome's spelling dictionary?