📚 The Ocean Floor

The least-known landscape: sounding and side-scan, the mid-ocean ridges, and the plains that cover most of the planet.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ocean bottom in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor	Joanna Cole	1992	23
	Odious Oceans	Anita Ganeri	1999	12
	Handbook of Geophysical Exploration at Sea	Richard A. Geyer	2018	9
	The control of the sea-bed	Evan Luard	1974	8
	The sea floor	Eugen Seibold	1982	7
	The undersea adventure	Philippe Diolé	1953	6
	The Oregon oceanbook	Tish Parmenter	1985	6
	Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea	Gail Gibbons	1999	6
	Seabed Fluid Flow	Alan Judd	2007	5
	The face of the deep	Bruce C. Heezen	1971	4
	U.S. Geological Survey Gulf of Mexico GLORIA program	Bonnie A. McGregor	1985	4
	Oceanic Basalts	P. A. Floyd	1991	4
	The floors of the oceans	Bruce C. Heezen	1959	3
	National--international jurisdictional boundary on the ocean floor	Hollis Dow Hedberg	1972	3
	A bottom sitting diver-operated sampler for engineering properties	Richard L. Jenkins	1972	3
	The international law of the ocean development	Oda, Shigeru	1972	3
	Analysis of hummocky subbottom relief from observations north of Tigvariak Island, Beaufort Sea, Alaska	Stephen Wolf	1985	3
	Magnetic tape format for the USGS bottom seismometer	G. K. Miller	1986	3
	Results from camera tows along the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge	Ellen Sue Kappel	1988	3
	Our seabed frontier	Committee on Existing and Potential Uses of the Seafloor	1989	3
	Mississippi-Alabama shelf Pinnacle Trend Habitat Mapping Study	Continental Shelf Associates	1992	3
	Mississippi-Alabama shelf Pinnacle Trend Habitat Mapping Study	Continental Shelf Associates.	1992	3
	Deep Atlantic	Richard Ellis	1996	3
	Illuminating the Hidden Planet	National Research Council	2000	3
	Hydrogeology of the oceanic lithosphere	Harry Elderfield	2004	3
	International Seabed Authority Collection	Claudia Tofan	2013	3
	Atlas of Bedforms in the Western Mediterranean	Jorge Guillén	2016	3
	Oceanic Basalts	P.A. Floyd	1899	2
	Geomorfologii︠a︡ morskikh beregov	O. K. Leontʹev	1955	2
	The seismic motion of the deep ocean floor	D. D. Prescott	1963	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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