| More about Google Ocean and the Atlantic Grid | Markopolo | 11/7/09 7:51 PM | Hill posted a masterful explanation for how the model of the bottom of the oceans are created and portrayed in Google Earth Ocean (GEO) in THIS thread, as well as a specific discussion of the Madeira Plain Survey which has led to (or, rather, resulte |
| Re: More about Google Ocean and the Atlantic Grid | Markopolo | 11/7/09 8:19 PM | Continuing the discussion, I've got the same area as shown previously, but I've added three placemarks (the updated file is attached below as GLOR06MV2, you might want to download it to follow along). The first placemark is an arrow (called "Large a |
| Re: More about Google Ocean and the Atlantic Grid | Markopolo | 11/7/09 8:52 PM | My next post for this series is the following collection of ship's tracks I extracted from the huge collection from the Marine Geoscience Data Systems website HERE. I've called it "Dead Bang Evidence", because in each and every one of these ship's tr |
| Re: More about Google Ocean and the Atlantic Grid | Markopolo | 11/7/09 10:30 PM | Here is a screenshot of the GEO seafloor model off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. At the top is a 100 mile line I added using the Ruler tool, for scale. About 50 or 60 miles West of Cape Town is a sea canyon which extends Northward for perhaps |
| Re: More about Google Ocean and the Atlantic Grid | Markopolo | 11/7/09 11:08 PM | The Madeira Abyssal Plain contains a grid of ship tracks which Hill found the source for, and explained it in THIS thread. In less than a half hour's search, I've found more than a dozen similar grids. These are common artifacts of the way that sona |
| Re: More about Google Ocean and the Atlantic Grid | Markopolo | 11/7/09 11:23 PM | As an example of the difference between an image of the seafloor and a model of the seafloor, I've taken a screenshot of the North Pacific, just South of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Aleutian Archipelago. I picked this area because of the high lat |