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Mapping the Ocean Floor

Mapping the Ocean Floor
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Description: Echo sounder (also referred to as sonar)  
Invented in the 1920s
Primary instrument for measuring depth
Reflects sound from ocean floor

Bathymetry – measurement of ocean depths and the charting of the shape or topography of the ocean floor

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