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Landforms of Baffin Bay (2 C, 3 P) Landforms of the Black Sea (7 C, 6 P) Landforms of the Caribbean Sea (7 C, 1 P) Landforms of the Gulf of Mexico (6 C, 11 P) Landforms of Hudson Bay (2 C, 5 P) Landforms of the Irish Sea (3 C, 6 P) Landforms of the Mediterranean Sea (7 C, 10 P) Landforms of the North Sea (6 C, 11 P)
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to Oceanography.. Thermohaline circulation. Oceanography (from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) 'ocean' and γραφή (graphḗ) 'writing'), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology.
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km 2 (32,870,000 sq mi). [5] It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas (North America and South ...
World ocean bathymetry. Physical oceanography is the study of physical conditions and physical processes within the ocean, especially the motions and physical properties of ocean waters. Physical oceanography is one of several sub-domains into which oceanography is divided. Others include biological, chemical and geological oceanography.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world. In the North Atlantic, the ridge separates the North American from the Eurasian plate and the African plate, north and south of the Azores Triple Junction.
This category has the following 38 subcategories, out of 38 total. Bodies of water by sea or ocean (26 C) Archipelagoes by sea or ocean (10 C) Atolls by sea or ocean (4 C) Drainage basins by sea or ocean (14 C) Islands by ocean or sea (44 C) Oceanic basins by sea or ocean (5 C) Oceanic ridges by sea or ocean (5 C)
The Atlantic Seaboard basin in eastern North America drains to the Atlantic Ocean; the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin in central and eastern North America drains to the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic Ocean or to the Labrador Sea; the Gulf of Mexico basin in the southern United States drains to the Gulf of Mexico, a basin of the Atlantic ...
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. The following names describe five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic.