{"id":1656,"date":"2015-04-29T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluehabitats.org\/?page_id=1656"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T08:50:30","slug":"bridges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/?page_id=1656","title":{"rendered":"Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid dt-default\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><em>Bridges <\/em>&#8211; Bridge geomorphic features were first described by Gardner and Armstrong (2011) as blocks of material that partially infill the Mariana Trench in four locations, forming a \u201cbridge\u201d across the trench.\u00a0 In this study we have extended Gardner and Armstrong\u2019s (2011) interpretation and applied it to all troughs and trenches and have identified a number of bridge features that appear to partially infill trenches and troughs in the global ocean.\u00a0 Slumping on the sides of some troughs and trenches has formed a bridge across the trench\/trough, thereby dividing it into two separate sections<\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 10px; height: 10px;\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"hr-thin style-dotted accent-border-color\" style=\"width: 100%;border-top-width: 1px;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid dt-default\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 10px; height: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Statistics of bridges (after Harris et al., 2014).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">[vc_table vc_table_theme=&#8221;classic_blue&#8221; allow_html=&#8221;&#8221;]Ocean,Bridge%20area%20km2,Number%20of%20Bridges,Average%20Bridge%20Size%20km2|Arctic%20Ocean,50,2,30|Indian%20Ocean,2240,12,190|Mediterranean%20and%20Black%20Sea%20,270,18,20|North%20Atlantic%20Ocean,210,16,10|North%20Pacific%20Ocean,2410,33,70|South%20Atlantic%20Ocean,60,4,20|South%20Pacific%20Ocean,2850,32,90|Southern%20Ocean,170,8,20|All%20Oceans,8270,125,70[\/vc_table]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h5>References<\/h5>\n<p>Gardner, J.V., Armstrong, A.A., 2011. The Mariana Trench: A new view based on multibeam echosounding, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, P.T., MacMillan-Lawler, M., Rupp, J., Baker, E.K., 2014. Geomorphology of the oceans. Marine Geology 352, 4-24.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridges &#8211; Bridge geomorphic features were first described by Gardner and Armstrong (2011) as blocks of material that partially infill the Mariana Trench in four locations, forming a \u201cbridge\u201d across the trench.\u00a0 In this study we have extended Gardner and Armstrong\u2019s (2011) interpretation and applied it to all troughs and trenches and have identified a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1646,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656\/revisions\/1750"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluehabitats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}