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  2. Lake of the Ozarks - Wikipedia

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    Lake of the Ozarks is a reservoir created by impounding the Osage River in the northern part of the Ozarks in central Missouri. Parts of three smaller tributaries to the Osage are included in the impoundment: the Niangua River, Grandglaize Creek, and Gravois Creek. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres (220 km 2) and 1,150 miles (1,850 km ...

  3. Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [2] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [3] It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco ...

  4. Caribbean Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean Sea[1] is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the northern coast of South America.

  5. Gulf of Mexico basin - Wikipedia

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    The formation of the Gulf of Mexico, an oceanic rift basin located between North America and the Yucatan Block, was preceded by the breakup of the Supercontinent Pangaea in the Late- Triassic, weakening the lithosphere. Rifting between the North and South American plates continued in the Early- Jurassic, approximately 160 million years ago, and ...

  6. Galveston Bay - Wikipedia

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    It is connected to the Gulf of Mexico and is surrounded by sub-tropical marshes and prairies on the mainland. [3] The water in the bay is a complex mixture of sea water and fresh water, which supports a wide variety of marine life. With a maximum depth of about 10 feet (3 m) and an average depth of only 6 feet (2 m), it is unusually shallow for ...

  7. Sigsbee Deep - Wikipedia

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    Contour map of Gulf of Mexico as sounded by the C&GS Steamer Blake between 1873 and 1875. Over 3,000 soundings went into this chart, most of the deep water soundings taken by the Sigsbee Sounding Machine. This was the first realistic bathymetric map of any oceanic basin. In: "Three Cruises of the BLAKE" by Alexander Agassiz, 1888. P. 102.

  8. Yucatán Channel - Wikipedia

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    Max. depth. 2,779 metres (9,117 ft) The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán (Spanish: Canal de Yucatán) is a strait between Mexico and Cuba. It connects the Yucatán Basin of the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico. It is just over 200 kilometres (120 mi) wide and nearly 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) deep at its deepest point near the coast of ...

  9. Caribbean could soon stir up new tropical trouble - AOL

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    The critical threshold for water temperatures is about 78 F. Water temperatures are well into the 80s in the path of the storm, and the depth of that warm water is significant.

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