Mountains And Ocean Basins. Plants in the ocean biome plants in the great barrier reef. Together they contain the overwhelming majority of all water on the planet and have an average depth of almost 4 km about 2 5 miles.
The ocean basins contain many extraordinary geological features including deep trenches and vast mountain ranges. A number of major features of the basins depart. New continental landmasses bearing new mountain chains of folded rock strata were uplifted from below the globe encircling waters that had eroded and leveled the pre flood topography while large deep ocean basins were formed to receive and accommodate the flood waters that then drained off the emerging continents.
The movement of rigid plates on the earth s surface known as plate tectonics is the cause of.
Over millions of years ocean basins open and close continents move and change shape and mountains are pushed up and eroded away. New continental landmasses bearing new mountain chains of folded rock strata were uplifted from below the globe encircling waters that had eroded and leveled the pre flood topography while large deep ocean basins were formed to receive and accommodate the flood waters that then drained off the emerging continents. Plants in the ocean biome plants in the great barrier reef. Ocean basin any of several vast submarine regions that collectively cover nearly three quarters of earth s surface.