Sentences with phrase «opening ocean basins»
Geologists are able to identify sea level changes that occurred world wide in all the open ocean basins and they use these to correlate and identify the ages of the sediments from basin to basin.
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Another difference is that northern water is in a fairly protected basin, while the Antarctic sea ice floats in open oceans where it expands freely in winter and melts almost completely in summer.
The Traps (India) have a thickness of < 3000 m and cover an area of c. 100 000 km2 that initially erupted within a continental rift setting and eventually transitioned into the opening of a nascent ocean basin that formed the Neotethys Ocean and the ribbon - like continent Cimmocean basin that formed the Neotethys Ocean and the ribbon - like continent CimmOcean and the ribbon - like continent Cimmeria.
Amongst these seas only the East / Japan Sea has no outflow of intermediate and deep water (containing anthropogenic CO2) to an adjacent major basin; the others are known to be significant sources of intermediate and deep water to the open ocean.
[ANDY REVKIN says: Fully half the Arctic Ocean basin was open water last summer — easy sail from Alaska to Siberia.
When tectonic plates slide, sink and shift the Earth's continents to form large landmasses, or supercontinents, ocean basins open and close in tandem.
As Earth's landmasses move slowly toward a supercontinent configuration, the planet's ocean basins open, eventually forming one unbroken mass of water.