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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
