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Seafloor Images Refine Petroleum Exploration Models

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GLORIA imagery can be draped ocer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bathymetry to create three-dimensional images that facilitate analysis. The perspective view shows the Florida Escarpment cut by gullies and a meandering submarine channel formed at water depths of more than 3,000 meters along the escarpment's base. Also shown are mass-wasting deposits (light tones) that bury the channel and originated in the Mississippi Canyon 500 kilometers to the northwest.
Florida Escarpment cut by gullies and a meandering submarine channel formed at water depths of more than 3,000 meters along the escarpment's base.
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