Story: Sea floor geology All images & media From page 1 – Zealandia: the New Zealand continent The New Zealand continent Continental shelves Pacific Ring of Fire Continental and oceanic crust Plate boundary From page 2 – Active plate boundaries Puysegur Trench Kermadec volcanoes Colville and Kermadec ridges Solander Island Submarine volcanic activity From page 3 – The continental shelf New Zealand’s coastline in the ice age Table Cape The legal continental shelf From page 4 – Continental slopes, canyons and landslides Continental slopes Subduction under the North Island Underwater canyon Underwater landslide Fear on a calm day From page 5 – Abysses Basins, troughs and trenches Havre Trough Hikurangi Plateau Hikurangi Channel From page 6 – How sediment forms Organic and inorganic sediment (1st of 3) Foraminiferous sediment (2nd of 3) Foraminifers (3rd of 3) New Zealand’s marine sediment Ripples in seafloor sediment From page 7 – New Zealand sea-floor sediment Sediment plumes Kaikōura Canyon Hikurangi Channel From page 8 – Exploring the sea bed Sea-floor sampling equipment Sediment cores Drilling the floor
