Earth science

Earth science

Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.

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Earth science; Oceanography

A zone of dispersion.

Florida current

Earth science; Oceanography

All of the northward-moving water from the Straits of Florida to a point off Cape Hatteras where the current ceases to follow the continental slope. It is one of the swiftest of ...

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Earth science; Oceanography

An instability of an unbounded parallel shear flow to the growth and nonlinear development of waves with phase speed in the along flow direction approximately equal to the speed ...

Agulhas current

Earth science; Oceanography

A generally southwestward-flowing ocean current of the Indian Ocean; one of the swiftest of ocean currents. Throughout the year, part of the south equatorial current turns south ...

Garrett-Munk spectrum

Earth science; Oceanography

An approximation to the internal gravity wave spectrum (for waves with large horizontal extent compared with the vertical extent) which is observed to have the same structure ...