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- A mid-ocean ridge (or mid-oceanic ridge) is an underwater mountain ... The mid-ocean ridges of the world are connected and form a single ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 17:32, 9 November 2022
- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... is the Maldive Ridge, which runs along the ocean floor from the Arabian Sea ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately 30° north ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- transported by the larger-scale motion of currents in the fluid). In the context ... larger than a few atoms. Convection currents occur on large scales in ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- the tops of others are flat. Winds and currents usually confine icebergs ... that could accurately detail the ocean currents and iceberg locations ...12 KB (1,760 words) - 17:16, 10 February 2024
- formed primarily by waves and longshore currents. Occasional strong storms ... The 1933 Chesapeake Potomac hurricane created the Ocean City Inlet ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- area that eventually merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain ... of thick sediments deposited by turbidity currents from the continental shelf ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- [[Image:Ocean currents 1911.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Ocean currents (1911)]] ... Ocean currents greatly affect Earth's climate by transferring ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- They are formed by powerful turbidity currents, volcanic and earthquake ... erosion is now thought to be turbidity currents and underwater landslides ...14 KB (2,019 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- Within the North Atlantic, ocean currents isolate a large elongated ... to the areas covered by sea ice. Ocean currents contribute to climatic ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- Oscillation) cause an anomaly of ocean currents and climatology in the ... parts of the world, carried there by ocean currents. Many ocean birds and ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- Jellyfish can be found in every ocean in the world. The size of the ... is a complex process that depends on ocean currents, nutrients, temperature ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 18:03, 2 April 2024
- half that of today's, and deep ocean currents were exceptionally warm ... started around the end of the epoch as ocean currents around Antarctica cooled. ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of ... the Gulf Stream and Caribbean Current ocean currents. The Caribbean current ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- on the land) or marine (deposited in the ocean). Terrigenous deposits originate ... bedforms are influenced by tides and currents. The following are major ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:44, 25 January 2023
- compared to those subject to fast-flowing currents (Grzimek et al. 2004). ... * Ocean quahog: Arctica islandica * Pacific razor clam: Siliqua patula ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- to as simply El Niño) is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The ... El Niño climate pattern forms in Pacific Ocean.] USA Today. Retrieved October ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- "The Struggle for Power in the Indian Ocean," to US and European ... War on America: Seen from the Indian Ocean, written after the September ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- poles, with a corresponding effect on ocean currents in the single great ocean ... temperatures, since warm equatorial ocean currents were cut off and an Atlantic ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- providing a view similar to that found on ocean coasts. ... age lake, the dunes are fed by southward currents robbing the northwestern ...12 KB (1,735 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- given as the meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean. However ... Cape of Good Hope between two major ocean currents ensures a rich diversity ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of the Earth's ocean ... by an equipotential surface, (ignoring ocean currents) which is commonly referred ...37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
- the auspices of the Deep Sea Drilling, Ocean Drilling, and International ... are also used to reconstruct ancient ocean currents. Because certain types ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- from the temperature and salinity of the ocean. The large energy reserves ... Additionally, depending on the prevailing currents of receiving waters, the ...20 KB (2,876 words) - 09:52, 29 January 2024
- water connection from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean. So ... to another body of land but formed in mid-ocean. With the exception ...19 KB (2,807 words) - 19:43, 7 February 2023
- to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs. These dangers ... The number of ships rounding Cape Horn from the Atlantic Ocean to ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that ... separates the Bering Sea from the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. Bristol ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- to earth, and eventually returns to the ocean via streams and rivers to ... winds following the warm gulf stream currents. Areas along the western ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 00:07, 8 December 2022
- to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Niño/ENSO ... oceans. The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean, and thus its temperature ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- It was later realized that large electric currents were associated with the ... deduced that the currents flowed in the east-west directions along ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- is a northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean, situated between the Kamchatka ... The Sea of Okhotsk is a northwestern arm of the Pacific Ocean. With ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and ... to delta deposits at the edge of the deep ocean collapsing in a succession ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- fish, that live near the bottom of the ocean as adults, halibut are characterized ... the continental shelf of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering sea. ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... The sea ice is affected by wind and ocean currents, which can move and rotate ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- the droplets is low enough that air currents below and within the cloud ... eventually heavy enough to overcome air currents in the cloud and the updraft ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The term "Polynesia ... used the stars, the movement of ocean currents and wave patterns, the ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- largest body of water in the world. An ocean basin, it is bounded on the ... Ocean current and one of the strongest ocean currents known, originates in ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- rivers, which drain into the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian ... Congo River system or east to the Indian Ocean. Creation of the Great Rift ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- surface, which could affect wind and ocean currents; variations in solar ... to ancient climate regimes are the ocean currents, which are modified by ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
- formed from sediments carried by turbidity currents. ==Biochemical ... as calcite (calcium carbonate) cover the ocean floor and later form limestone ...11 KB (1,524 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- largest part of their diet. In the Southern Ocean (or Antarctic Ocean), one ... fishing of krill is done in the Southern Ocean and in the waters around ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water ... Oncorhynchus genus are found in the Pacific Ocean, including the Cherry salmon ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- Historian Vernon Louis Parrington, author of Main Currents in American ... :Of Ocean's azure gulfs and where he flings :The restless surge ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- "muds will accumulate even when currents move swiftly." The ... are widely used to infer past climates, ocean conditions, and orbital variations ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- fastening is provided, such as on a rocky ocean bottom. Some kinds of sponges ... sediment is agitated by wave action or by currents, it tends to block the pores ...15 KB (2,195 words) - 18:05, 14 October 2022
- and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. The river is 1243 miles ... water tributaries of the river and the ocean. These fish--especially the ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the ... _currents/ocean_currents.html Ocean Currents] NOAA Ocean Exploration ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- , this predisposes the formation of eddy currents which maintain a more-or ... The jet streams are rapidly moving upper-level currents. Traveling ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- beautiful seacoast along the Pacific Ocean in west-central California; ... sea level, only three miles (4.8 km) from the ocean. Paul Henson and ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- are relatively sheltered from fierce ocean currents. The northern and eastern ... by constant trade winds from the Atlantic Ocean. Rainfall is low and variable ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- aridity. The region, isolated between the ocean and the escarpment, is considered ... the desert causes immense fogs and strong currents in which sailors easily ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:13, 11 November 2022
- often refers to the release of oil into the ocean or coastal waters. Public ... smaller oil droplets, scattered with currents, may cause less harm and ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- such as shoals, reefs and treacherous currents. ====Myos Hormos and ... kingdom of Aksum engaged in the Indian Ocean trade network, receiving ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected to it via ... of water in the world, receiving both ocean and river water. Its ecosystem ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- quot; and "oases in the desert of the ocean," coral reefs are among ... They are under threat from climate change, ocean acidification, blast fishing ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- world's oceans except perhaps the Arctic Ocean. part of food chains, both in the ocean and on land where they lay ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- islanders' way of life. However, the ocean is believed to be critical ... fishing areas in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the southern coast of ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- for heavy barges exists from the Pacific Ocean to Lewiston, Idaho. Most ... of once famous rapids, the slowing of currents and an associated rising ...26 KB (3,775 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- by volcanic activity on the bottom of the ocean from the Precambrian Age. formation. They theorize that thermal currents in the earth’s mantle ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- that the opposite coasts of the Atlantic Ocean —or, more precisely, the ... #039; 1928 suggestion of convection currents within the mantle as the ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- from predators or being swept into ocean currents, where they drift away ... **Sea pony, Hippocampus fuscus Rüppell, 1838 (Indian Ocean) ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- Octopuses not only contribute to the food chains in ocean environments ... inhabit many diverse regions of the ocean, especially coral reefs. ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 10:16, 11 March 2023
- system for redistributing heat. Ocean currents are another important ... to influence the climate, including ocean currents, surface albedo, greenhouse ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean. It is more than ... could be found suitable for waves or ocean currents to provide power. The ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- of air in the atmosphere and water in the ocean are notable examples of this ... and R. Alan Plumb. 2007. Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: An ...54 KB (8,553 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast ... tropical climate, pink beaches, and cerulean blue ocean waters. ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- to the sea for warmth. Although strong tidal currents affect the exact times and durations of each visit to the bay, the dugong return for protection ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- in this case the majesty of the ocean or other bodies of water ... Ignoring other forces such as water currents and swimming, the diver ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- last= Kolakowski |first= Leszek |title= Main Currents of Marxism: ... * [http://www.hermetic.com/bey/lemonade.html “The Lemonade Ocean ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- has allowed the discovery of the deep ocean vent communities. This remarkable ... algae only in the photic part of the ocean (where light penetrates) ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- from the WID or is carried away in natural currents. Opposition claims that Water Injection Dredging is not a natural way of dredging while the side ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- and desert. Climate is influenced by ocean currents, including the El Niño southern oscillation, which brings periodic drought, and the seasonal ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- over the Americans because of the swift currents. ===Inside Course ... local advantage did not exist because of the currents. ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- * Manore, Jean L. 1999. Cross-Currents: Hydroelectricity and the Engineering of Northern Ontario. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- to both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Mediterranean ... T. thynnus is found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- Different locations have different potentials (voltages) and currents ... was located above a thunderstorm over the ocean, and lasted under a second ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- 1.6 billion tons of sediment flow into the ocean each year. The sediment originates ... occurs primarily through the action of currents and waves, but sea level ...24 KB (3,723 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- the core of North America and the Atlantic Ocean, precipitation is abundant ... primary influences here are the Arctic Ocean currents (such as the Labrador ...36 KB (5,238 words) - 15:40, 7 December 2022
- of the rivers, but also by tidal currents. This meant that high tide ... Era, with the opening of the Tethys Ocean, between the Eurasian and ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- been wrapped around a rock in strong river currents. * Polyethylene ... purpose of shedding waves in rough whitewater or ocean travel. ...28 KB (4,725 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- and some of the large islands in the Arctic Ocean, and throughout the northern ... of rock flour produced is so high that currents of meltwaters acquire a ...37 KB (5,884 words) - 20:25, 29 December 2023
- Albatrosses range widely in the Southern Ocean (South Pole Ocean or ... in calm seas are forced to rest on the ocean's surface until the ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- is the warm water at the surface of the ocean. Factors such as a continued ... The passage of a tropical cyclone over the ocean can cause the upper ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- in a paler green, surrounding the Indian Ocean plus Saint Helena in the ... route to be navigated, prevailing winds, currents, shoals and landmarks. The ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- role, prey species could overwhelm the ocean ecosystems. On the other ... a behavior common in pelagic (open ocean) sharks, have lost the ability ...44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
- because of the way in which strong, swift currents made navigation difficult ... these large birds, which take off for their ocean feeding grounds near the ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- The magnetic field is generated by eddy currents (caused by a moving magnetic ... in the Jovian radiation belt and electric currents were detected flowing between ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. At roughly 13° North and ... with constant trade winds off the Atlantic Ocean serving to keep temperatures ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- hangs over the city, trapped by the air currents that prevail. The city that ... dioxide gas are trapped by the air currents that prevail, creating a ...30 KB (4,458 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- planet as a marble of cloud-swirled blue ocean broken by green-brown continents ... Ocean currents are important factors in determining climate, particularly ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- sometimes occur when strong subsurface currents flow to the water surface ... in the sky; seawater and icebergs in the ocean; glaciers and rivers in the ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- wind, biomass, geothermal, hydropower and ocean resources, and biofuels and ... of tidal power and the steady gyre of ocean currents. Wave-power generation ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- full advantage of prevailing winds and currents: the trip from the West ... across the Sahara desert and the Indian Ocean region into the Middle East ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- in parts of the northeast. As most of that region lay far from the ... as with other coastal areas, the Indian Ocean exerts a strong moderating ...54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- out of the confluence of three literary currents prominent in the Europe ... various stations throughout the Indian Ocean, South America, and the South ...22 KB (3,425 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- filter systems that use natural air currents for the aeration instead ... capacity of the receiving waters (ocean with strong currents or large ...40 KB (5,900 words) - 10:11, 26 January 2023
- water power, biomass, wind, geothermal, ocean thermal, wave action, and ... of tidal power and the steady gyre of ocean currents. Wave-power generation ...73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
- Due to its isolation by the cold, strong, hazardous currents of San ... * Ocean View Publishing. [http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/mainpg.htm ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- Isthmus of Panama to discover the Pacific Ocean and to establish a settlement ... difficult voyage due to strong winds and currents, reached Atacames in the ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- :The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear; :Full many a flower is born ... as a progenitor of certain of these currents of criticism, he was vexed ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 17:20, 4 October 2020
