What Is Ocean Relief?

Answer. A wide array of landscapes quite similar to their counterparts on continents are hidden beneath the ocean’s surface. Under the ocean’s surface, there are also mountains, troughs, highlands, ridges, cliffs, and trenches. Ocean relief and otherwise submarine relief describe these relief characteristics observed on the ocean bottom. Oceanic Trenches, Seamounts, Guyots, Ocean Depths Basins, Continental Shelves, Continental Mountain, Mainland Rise or Foot, Abyssal Plains, and Abyssal Hills are some areas of the ocean relief that may be classified.