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Story: Sea floor geology

All images and media

From page 1 - Zealandia: the New Zealand continent

The New Zealand continent

The New Zealand continent

Continental shelves

Continental shelves

Pacific Ring of Fire

Pacific Ring of Fire

Continental and oceanic crust

Continental and oceanic crust

Plate boundary

From page 2 - Active plate boundaries

Puysegur Trench

Puysegur Trench

Kermadec volcanoes

Kermadec volcanoes

Colville and Kermadec ridges

Colville and Kermadec ridges

Solander Island

Solander Island

Submarine volcanic activity

Submarine volcanic activity

From page 3 - The continental shelf

New Zealand’s coastline in the ice age

New Zealand’s coastline in the ice age

Table Cape

The legal continental shelf

The legal continental shelf

From page 4 - Continental slopes, canyons and landslides

Continental slopes

Continental slopes

Subduction under the North Island

Subduction under the North Island

Underwater canyon

Underwater canyon

Underwater landslide

Underwater landslide

Fear on a calm day

Fear on a calm day

From page 5 - Abysses

Basins, troughs and trenches

Basins, troughs and trenches

Havre Trough

Hikurangi Plateau

Hikurangi Plateau

Hikurangi Channel

Hikurangi Channel

From page 6 - How sediment forms

Organic and inorganic sediment

Organic and inorganic sediment (1st of 3)

Foraminiferous sediment

Foraminiferous sediment (2nd of 3)

Foraminifers

Foraminifers (3rd of 3)

New Zealand’s marine sediment

New Zealand’s marine sediment

Ripples in seafloor sediment

Ripples in seafloor sediment

From page 7 - New Zealand sea-floor sediment

Sediment plumes

Sediment plumes

Kaikōura Canyon

Kaikōura Canyon

Hikurangi Channel

Hikurangi Channel

From page 8 - Exploring the sea bed

Sea-floor sampling equipment

Sea-floor sampling equipment

Sediment cores

Drilling the floor

Drilling the floor

How to cite this page:

Keith Lewis, Scott D. Nodder and Lionel Carter, 'All images and media', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/sea-floor-geology/media (accessed 23 March 2023)

Story by Keith Lewis, Scott D. Nodder and Lionel Carter, published 12 Jun 2006