To the east of longitude 150° W, the relief of the ocean floor is considerably less pronounced than it is to the west. In the eastern Pacific theCocos Ridge extends southwestward from the Central American isthmus to theGalapagos Islands. To the south of the Galapagos lies the PeruBasin, ...
Pacific Coast, region, western North America, possessing two unifying geologic and geographic properties—the Pacific Ocean, which constitutes a natural western border, and the mountain ranges that form the eastern border of the region. The most commonly
The Pacific Ocean is located between Americas to the East of the Pacific Ocean basin and the Asian and Australian continents to the West. The Equator divides the Pacific Ocean into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. Below you can see a world map showing the Pacific Ocean: ...
A new depth anomaly map of the Pacific Ocean basin [abs.]Schroeder, W
For this map series, sediment thickness and depth to basement were determined only in the deep-ocean basin regions because the seismic system used on the EEZ-SCAN 84 cruises could not resolve oceanic basement beneath the thick sediments of the continental slope. All the data used to compile ...
It is suggested that this fast mode may be best understood as a coupled Pacific Ocean basin (POB) mode. The existence of this fast mode, which appears independent of the slow ENSO mode, has important implications in understanding and predicting the tropical Pacific SST anomaly. 展开 ...
② differences in the formation mechanisms between back-arc basin extension and normal mid-oceanic ridge spreading; ③differences between the spreading of ultra-slow Indian Ocean and rapid Pacific, differences between active and passive spreading, and the push force onto the mid-oceanic ridges; ④ ...
High-quality ocean color data (chlorophyll) provided by the Sea-viewing Wide Field of view Sensor (SeaWiFS) satellite were analyzed for the first complete year of coverage (October 1997 to September 1998) in the tropical Indo-Pacific basin. This period coincides with the peak of one of the ...
Thus, Pacific Ocean means 'peaceful ocean'. However, the Pacific is not really only calm and peaceful. The 'ring of fire' is located in the Pacific Ocean. There is a string of volcanoes in the Pacific basin which are still active and therefore many of the world's major earthquakes and...
Pacific Ocean InPacific Ocean: Principal ridges and basins …y Gómez Ridge from the Southeast Pacific Basin, which in turn is separated from the Southwest Pacific Basin by the East Pacific Rise and indeterminate Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, which runs from the Sala y Gómez Ridge to Antarctica in ...