Great doco about Earth's undersea land masses

Pacific seafloor bathymetry showing ridges, trenches, and seamount chains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmFUFnMj5Jw

Especially interesting is the fact that the original Hawaiian island has since been subsumed under the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula as indicated in the middle of the video.

Most of Earth’s crustal relief sits underwater: mid-ocean ridges, fracture zones, and volcanic seamount chains.

Mapped bathymetry turns the deep Pacific into a readable landscape of plates and hotspots.

Tuesday October 27th 2020