Cartography by multibeam echo-sounder of the Mediterranean Ridge and
surroundings areas
These two compilation maps of the bathymetry and
acoustic imagery of the Mediterranean Ridge and adjacent areas at a scale
of 1:1500000 are based on recent oceanographic campaigns of the Ifremer
research vessel L’atalante in
the eastern Mediterranean.
Produced and distributed with the support of CIESM
and in close cooperation with the campaign’schief scientists from
Ifremer, CNRS and the Free University of Amsterdam, both maps illustrate
the startling changes brought about to our knowledge of deep-sea basins by
mapping using multibeam echo-sounder. In this case they reveal a brand-new
view of the Mediterranean Ridge – this vast bulge created at the
subduction zone between the African and European plates – and of the
neighbouring domains, with a degree of detail never achieved before |
Marine Geosciences
