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Founded in 1876, Texas A&M University is a U.S. public and comprehensive university offering a wide variety of academic programs far beyond its original label of agricultural and mechanical trainings. It is one of the few institutions holding triple federal designations as a land-, sea- and ...
The Cariaco Basin is a 1400 m deep depression within the continental shelf of Venezuela, connected to the southeastern Caribbean Sea across a sill that reaches approximately 140 m at its deepest point.
Industry:Earth science
The changing of the Earth–Moon tidal characteristics over time.
Industry:Earth science
The chemical, physical, and biological changes sediment undergoes after it is initially deposited. This includes such processes as compaction, cementation, reworking, authigenesis, replacement, crystallization, leaching, hydration, bacterial action, and formation of concretions that normally occur at temperatures and pressures characteristic of surface conditions. Weathering and metamorphic processes are usually excluded from this category.
Industry:Earth science
The Circulation in the Romanche Fracture Zone experiment took place in November–December 1994. It was a cooperative effort between American and French scientists aboard the N/O Le Noroit to study the movement of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) through the Romanche Fracture Zone. During the 20 day experiment 55 HRP profiles and more than 30 CTD stations were completed, with most of the work concentrated in and around the Zone. Twelve more HRP dives comprising two equatorial sections were made after the work in the Zone to examine the structure of the deep equatorial jets. It was found that very strong eastward velocities in the deepest part of the Zone were responsible for high levels of turbulent mixing of the AABW.
Industry:Earth science
The collective name for the GCOS, GOOS and GTOS systems. Information about all three can be found at GOSIC.
Industry:Earth science
The comparatively flat portion of a beach profile extending seaward from beyond the breaker zone to the edge of the continental shelf.
Industry:Earth science
The concave sea area off Valencia in the southern Balearic Sea to the north of the Ibiza Channel. The bottom topography forms a trough deeper than 1000 m bounded by the wide continental Ebro margin to the north and Cape La Nao to the south.
Industry:Earth science
The concentration of dissolved oxygen. This was proposed as an analogy to salinity in Montgomery (1969). For a line of uniform oxyty, both isoxygen and isooxygen have been proposed, with isooxygenic as the adjectival form.
Industry:Earth science
The continuation of the East Australian Current east of New Zealand. It forms and is part of an anticyclonic eddy near 37° S off of East Cape. This eddy is found in the same location throughout the years and as such is thought to be topographically controlled. The further extension of this current has a bimodal nature that changes seasonally. During the summer most of its transport continues along the New Zealand coast all the way to Chatham Rise as the East Cape Current. In the winter part of it separates from the shelf and continues as a zonal flow into the open ocean, forming a temperature front near 29° S that is distinguishable from another shallow front near 25° S called the Tropical Front, the northern limit of eastward flow in the subtropical gyre.
Industry:Earth science
The continuation of the Mediterranean Current through the Yucatan Strait and on into the Gulf of Mexico. It is dynamically a western boundary current that separates from the shelf north of the Yucatan Strait, becomes unstable, and intermittently sheds anticyclonic eddies or rings into the Gulf of Mexico. The speed of the current has been estimated to be 1.0 m/s in Yucatan Strait, falling off to 0.4 m/s at 1000 m depth. A highly irregular southward flowing undercurrent has also been found in the 200 m above the sill depth.
Industry:Earth science
