Hello,

I'm looking for a shaded relief map of the floor of the Earth's oceans. Someone gave me a link to an NOASS site but none of the mpas they had were true-color, they were all topographical. Any ideas?

Thanks
Jeffrey

The National Geographic Society? I'm sure that I've seen such a map included with the monthly magazine.

TTT

How would you know what true colour was?

Phil

Incidentally, I didn't type it like that! I typed "NOAA." I must have accidentally typed an "s."

Meaning, not with different colors representing different depths.

I assume the oceanbottom surface isn't red or purple.




I'd have to get a subscription then, right? I'm right now just looking for the map.

Have you looked at the ocean floor map used in Google Earth?

A couple of places with images where you might look...
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/earth.php
http://www.orangesmile.com/ru/foto/ocean-maps-eng.htm
http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/3GonW3.html

Astro0

I have. I'm more interested in maps that have already been printed, to hang on a wall.

This is exactly what I want! Except that it doesn't have an "add to cart" button!

Something like these?
Ocean Floor Poster 1 2

There's also a really great poster that you can download and get printed here.

A straightforward Google search came up with all of these. Give it a try!

Astro0

It's the whole "get printed" bit. The print shops to which I've gone with these sorts of things suggest it would be prohibitively expensive. I could print on my printer except there would inevitably be a margin on each page and I'd need a lot of 8 1/2 X 11's to print something, and it wouldn't look so hot, either.

Though I do thank you for the links! I have done searches with Google and had no luck finding exactly what I wanted.

There are lots of online printers these days that are reasonably priced - I just put the 1.3m x 1.0m size quoted for that map into a poster printing site I've used in the UK before and get a quote of £39 (~$55 US) Not too bad for such a large photo quality print.

>>I'd have to get a subscription then, right? I'm right now just looking for the map.

National Geographic sells maps separately.



http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/product...6/4777/120.html

As a matter of fact much of the deep ocean floor is red.

http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/BOSCORF/cura...ges/pacific.gif

There are som fairly decent relief maps online here:

http://orange-smile.com/ru/foto/ocean-maps-eng.htm

Hi - you can purchase this type of poster from the NGDC for $18. I have an older version of it. Still has colors though:

http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/o...01929-POS-A0001

As for other online images, here are a few links related to the ETOPO2 datasets from the NGDC and SOS websites:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/01mgg04.html

http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/Land/etopo2.html

ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/land/etopo2/earth_color/4096.jpg

ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/land/etopo2/earth_topo/4096.jpg

Steve

http://www.ravenmaps.com/prodinfo.asp?number=LW is fairly nice.