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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cooscillating tide

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The tide created in an estuary caused by the ocean tide at the entrance to the estuary acting as a driving force.

pinnacle

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is “any high tower or spire–shapred pillar of rock, or coral, alone or cresting a summit.”

median valley

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is “the axial depression of the mid–oceanic ridge system.”

slope

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is “the deepening sea floor out from the shelf edge to the upper limit of the continental rise, or the point where there ...

shelf edge

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is “the line along which there is marked increase of slope at the seaward margin of a continental (or island) shelf; ...

continental margin

Earth science; Physical oceanography

The official IHO definition for this undersea feature name is “the zone, generally consisting of shelf, slope and continental rise, separating the continent from the deep sea ...