Search results for "Ocean currents" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
