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Oceanography
The scientific studies of the ocean.
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upwelling
Earth science; Oceanography
The vertical motion of water in the ocean by which subsurface water of lower temperature and greater density moves toward the surface of the ocean. Upwelling occurs most commonly among the western ...
Brazil current
Earth science; Oceanography
The warm ocean current flowing southward along the Brazilian coast. Its origin is in the westward flowing south equatorial current , part of which turns south and flows along the South American ...
Kuroshio extension
Earth science; Oceanography
The warm, eastward-flowing ocean current that represents the direct continuation of the Kuroshio (in latitude 35 degrees where the Kuroshio leaves the coast of Japan), and flows eastward in two ...
continental shelf
Earth science; Oceanography
The zone around the continents extending from the low-water mark seaward to where there is a marked increase in slope to greater depths.
continental platform
Earth science; Oceanography
The zone that includes both the continental shelf or continental borderland and the continental slope .
metamorphic
Earth science; Oceanography
These are rocks within the Earth’s crust which have been altered by heat, pressure or chemically active fluids.
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