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The Pacific Ocean's mean depth is 4,000 meters (13,000 feet). [3] The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, located in the northwestern Pacific, is the deepest known point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,928 meters (35,853 feet). [4]
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. [8] In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. [9] The following names describe five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic.
Mean depth (m) Maximum (m) Pacific Ocean: 165.2 707.6 4282 ... The Kuroshio Current is an ocean current found in the western Pacific Ocean off the east coast of ...
There are about 50,000 km (31,000 mi) of oceanic trenches worldwide, mostly around the Pacific Ocean, but also in the eastern Indian Ocean and a few other locations. The greatest ocean depth measured is in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench , at a depth of 10,994 m (36,070 ft) below sea level .
The mean annual ranges of salinity of the Sea of Cortez are between 3.5 and 3.58% at the surface. [1] Furthermore, the salinity of the water of the northern gulf is generally higher than the central and southern faunal regions due to the increased amount of evaporation that occurs in that region.
At the carbonate compensation depth, the rate of dissolution exactly matches the rate of supply of CaCO 3 from above. At steady state this depth, the CCD, is similar to the snowline (the first depth where carbonate-poor sediments occur). The lysocline is the depth interval between the saturation and carbonate compensation depths. [4] [1]
Ocean metrics; Ocean Area million km 2 Volume [1] million cu km % Mean depth km Max depth km Coastline km Fish capture [2] million tonnes % Pacific Ocean [3]: 155.6 46.4
Ocean temperature as a term applies to the temperature in the ocean at any depth. It can also apply specifically to the ocean temperatures that are not near the surface. In this case it is synonymous with deep ocean temperature). It is clear that the oceans are warming as a result of climate change and this rate of warming is increasing.