Grand Canyon move over! Some
of the most beautiful landscapes on earth are seascapes. Multi-colored
coral reefs, seamounts, rocky bottoms, azure lagoons and mangrove
swamps, great cliffs rising from the sea on iron-bound coasts, all
are part of the variegated seascapes ranging from our coasts to the
deep sea. Don’t forget the mid-ocean ridge system – earth’s
largest mountain range, the great fracture zones, the thousands of
seamounts and abyssal hills, the great trenches that could submerge
Mount Everest with room to spare. That’s only the big stuff
– look at the the sand dunes and ripple patterns of our sandy
beaches, rocky
ledges of our New England and western coasts, the salt topography
of the Gulf Coast continental slope, and the basin and range topography
off Southern California and we discover that the some of the strangest,
most varied, and most beautiful landscapes on earth actually lay under
the sea….
