The origin and development of the Atlantic Ocean are now accounted for by the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics, according to which a vast protocontinent, Pangea, began to break up about 180 million years ago. The rifting caused the landmasses of the Western and Eastern hemisphe...
the Azores (Portugal), São Tomé and Príncipe and the Cape Verde Islands off the African coast are all important islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Many of these islands just like the island of Tenerife (the largest of the Canary Islands in Spain) are of volcanic origin. ...
Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation. Nature 424, 532-536.Knorr, G., & Lohmann, G. (2003). Southern Ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation. Nature, 424(6948), 532-536. https://doi.org...
179 mm. The prevailing winds are the northeast trade winds, and hurricanes may occur between July and November, passing westward into the Caribbean. Atlantic ocean swell and storm waves arrive from N to NE. The tide range is small, about a metre, but there are larger fluctuations in sea ...
The second-largest ocean on Earth, the Atlantic drives our weather patterns, including hurricanes, and is home to many species from sea turtles to dolphins.
A warm ocean current of the northern Atlantic Ocean off eastern North America. It originates in the Gulf of Mexico and, as the Florida Current, passes through the Straits of Florida and then flows northward along the southeast coast of the United States. North of Cape Hatteras the Gulf Strea...
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Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth: With Cillian Murphy, Renée Godfrey, Colin Foord, Joachim Jakobsen. In this landmark series, the BBC Natural History Unit explores a vast ocean that stretches nearly 10,000 miles, from Arctic to Antarctic and from su
The Amazon Deep-Sea Fan began to form in the Early Miocene and is characterized by a highly meandering distributary channel system. On the middle fan, these leveed channels coalesce to form two broad levee complexes. Older, now buried levee complexes are
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