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Rio Grande Rise in southwest Atlantic Ocean

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center 2009 (approx.)
May of the ocean floor showing the depth which is labeled in meters, and an Earth globe shows a dot to locate the study area.
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Detailed Description

The Rio Grande Rise comprises two major seafloor features: a north-south string of seamounts that forms the eastern Rio Grande Rise, and an elliptical plateau that forms the western Rio Grande Rise, the focus of the January–February research cruise. Black rectangles show areas where the cruise dredged for rock samples. m, meters; km, kilometers.

Bathymetric data is taken from the GEBCO 30 second grid (www.gebco.net). Inset globe was produced using the Generic Mapping Tools (Wessel and Luis, 2017). Map was produced by Isobel Yeo (National Oceanography Centre Southampton).

Full data reference:
Gebco gridded global bathymetry data. British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2009.
Wessel, P., and J. F. Luis, 2017, The GMT/MATLAB Toolbox, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 18, 811-823, doi: 10.1002/2016GC006723

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