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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 ...
Surface temperatures in the western North Atlantic: Most of the North American landmass is black and dark blue (cold), while the Gulf Stream is red (warm). Source: NASA The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude ...
Gulf of California. / 28.000°N 112.000°W / 28.000; -112.000. The Gulf of California ( Spanish: Golfo de California ), also known as the Sea of Cortés ( Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea ( Mar Vermejo ), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the ...
The Guadalupe River ( / ˌɡwɑːdəˈlup /) [ 4] ( Spanish pronunciation: [gwaðaˈlupe]) runs from Kerr County, Texas, to San Antonio Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, with an average temperature of 17.75 degrees Celsius (63.95 degrees Fahrenheit). [ 5] It is a popular destination for rafting, fly fishing, and canoeing.
Free-air gravity anomaly over the Chicxulub structure (coastline and state boundaries shown as black lines) The Chicxulub crater ( IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo ...
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 ...
Hurricane Katrina's two periods of rapid intensification were fueled by the warm waters of the Gulf Loop Current (altimetry-derived sea heights and water current flows on August 22 pictured). [29] [30] Emerging over the Gulf of Mexico around 05:00 UTC on August 26, Katrina quickly regained strength and became a hurricane just one hour later.
Neil Lynch started his Saturday morning like any other: He stopped his car at Belleair Beach, griped about the hourly parking fee and set off on a 5-mile walk. He usually brings his polarized ...