Sentences with phrase «with deep ocean basins»

The crust encompasses the brittle and shifting continental plates; it becomes scarred with mountains when the plates grind together or with deep ocean basins when the plates pull apart.

Not exact matches

The deep basins under the oceans are carpeted with lava that spewed from submarine volcanoes and solidified.

For much of the global ocean the coarser resolution is okay, but when you are studying a unique location like the Gulf of Maine, with its complex bathymetry of deep basins, channels, and shallow banks combined with its location near the intersection of two major ocean current systems, the output from the coarser models can be misleading.»

«The main hydrological features of the deep Mediterranean Sea are (a) high homeothermy from roughly 300 — 500 m to the bottom, and bottom temperatures of about 12.8 °C to 13.5 °C in the western basin and 13.5 °C to 15.5 °C in the eastern basin (i.e., there are no thermal boundaries, whereas in the Atlantic Ocean the temperature decreases with depth)»

To ascertain with confidence the extent to which deep water production impacts the ocean's meridional circulation and hence the ocean's contributions to the global poleward heat flux, continuous measures of trans - basin mass and heat transports are needed.

The Arctic Ocean sits in an almost enclosed basin with only one deep channel in and out called the East Greenland Rift (Figure 4).

All are graced with relatively pristine waters, and all have significant deep ocean basin waters.

A quantitative theoretical model of the meridional overturning circulation and associated deep stratification in an interhemispheric, single - basin ocean with a circumpolar channel is presented.