Earth and Maps · Built from a recipe
The Sea Floor
G4 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 381.2 Hz.
The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific is the deepest place in the ocean: its Challenger Deep is nearly 11 kilometers (about 7 miles) down.
- Shelf
- Earth and Maps
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- Public domain
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 381.2 Hz, 48 cents flat of G4. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.
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How to play
Tap to drain the ocean and fill it back.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drain the ocean | Tap | ||
| Drain the ocean | Button |
About it
The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific is the deepest place in the ocean: its Challenger Deep is nearly 11 kilometers (about 7 miles) down. It forms where the Pacific Plate sinks beneath the Mariana Plate, and the same collision built the arc of islands beside it, including Guam. This block covers about 750 kilometers, with heights from NOAA's ETOPO1 relief model, stretched up nine times so the trench and the seamounts show.
Tap it and the ocean drains away to bare the sea floor: the plains, the seamounts and the long curve of the trench, which empties last. Then the sea comes back. Colors darken with depth, as on a chart.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 172,678 at Low, and up to 770,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| ETOPO1 Global Relief Model | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain |
