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The wet and cool oceanic climate readily supports fast-growing Sphagnum mosses, peat-forming processes and development of peat landforms.
The Lofoten Margin Flows does not show any planation surfaces on top and its seismic character is very similar to normal oceanic crust.
The primitive magmas are roughly equally distributed between arcs built on oceanic and continental crust.
However, this ichthyofauna is characterized mostly by the co-occurrence of oceanic and neritic fish.
I rose skywards like a water-moth for the sun, emerged and strapped on my diving gear for my next oceanic clear-cut.
The climate is cool temperate oceanic and is characterised by its lack of extremes.
Upwelling of cold oceanic nutrient-rich waters in many shelves leads to extensive plankton blooms.
The coastal intertidal zone is the area between the low and high tide zones that is not quite oceanic and not quite terrestrial.
Seven paired samples were collected from a small oceanic reef near Lee Stocking Island in the Bahamas.
The Homolidae first appeared during the Jurassic, and by the Cretaceous was well established in oceanic and epicontinental regions.
Scientists are also making progress with the prediction of longer-term climate fluctuations that are strongly influenced by oceanic conditions.
The climate in this south-western corner of Ireland is oceanic, with mild winters, cool summers and lots of rain.
Planktonic foraminifera can be used to obtain data relating to surface water temperatures and oceanic circulation patterns.
The relatively large shear forces that stimulate dinoflagellate bioluminescence are higher than typical levels of oceanic turbulence.
Here the oceanic landscape of the Water country met the rolling plains and lush forests of the Air Queendom.
The complexes were stacked during the Devonian in an accretionary wedge to the west or NW of the Rheic oceanic basin.
Subsequently the massive sulfide deposit and surrounding metalliferous sediment apron were covered by oceanic radiolarian chert sediments.
Rejuvenescent volcanism occurs on many oceanic islands, including the Society Islands.
The sepulchral hyper-meticulousness of his previous film is here opened up with the wide coastal and oceanic setting.
At the same time, the continental crust tends to ride over the oceanic crust, for it is the lighter of the two.
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The Indo-Pacific is the most abundant oceanic region for aquatic life and Sipadan seems to be home for most of them.
After new oceanic crust forms, the lithosphere cools and thickens as it moves away from the ocean ridge.
Unfortunately measurements of absorption and scattering coefficients at mesopelagic depths in oceanic waters do not exist.
Sediments between the mafic sills in the Guaymas Basin are a mixture of continent-derived gravity-flow deposits and oceanic pelagic deposits.
His's an oceanic performance that gives emphasis to the work's undulating hemiolas as they reach across bar lines and destabilize phrase periods.
And sharks that range across the open ocean, known as oceanic or pelagic sharks, have been an even bigger mystery.
As old oceanic crust was consumed in the trenches, new magma rose and erupted along the spreading ridges to form new crust.
Further studies are needed on other species such as the great white, mako and oceanic whitetip.
Most deep-sea trenches in the Pacific are floored by normal basaltic oceanic crust overlain by pelagic sediments and ash.
Like their terrestrial counterparts, the oceanic deserts are low in biomass.
The sea serpent or its lake counterpart, the Loch Ness Monster, has long been part of oceanic folklore.
These data indicate that euxinic conditions were common in the water column during Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events.
Additionally, gobies are usually the most abundant freshwater fish on oceanic islands.
Despite the oceanic setting, the incoming Atlantic Plate carries significant sedimentary and biogenic influxes derived from nearby South America.
Moreover, the animals and the plants inhabiting oceanic islands bear the greatest similarity to species found on the nearest mainland.
Igneous upwelling in the resultant space between the two continents produced the anomalously thick oceanic crust of the Caribbean Plate.
The heartland stood in opposition to the maritime or oceanic lands, and would triumph.
Identifying pelagic hot spots on oceanic scales and linking these regions with oceanographic features is of high importance.
Standing in this forest, in the shadows of the mountains, at the edge of the oceanic abyss, I can't help thinking about Judas Iscariot.
Few of us will ever have a chance to visit a deep-sea ridge to witness a volcanic eruption as new oceanic crust is being formed.
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This would have created at northern latitudes a more oceanic climate with cool moist summers.
The climate here is drier due to the cold oceanic upwelling of the Cabo Frio region.
Traveling across the Pacific, oceanic tides crash upon the Hawaiian Ridge and dissipate.
This attenuation rate is similar to numerous others previously reported for various oceanic areas.
Continental oceanic margins are often areas of sensitive response to climate change.
The best part was when a huge oceanic whitetip started chasing the airline check-in girl.
It is a pelagic, oceanic shark and is frequently found near the shore especially during the summer months.
A prevalent notion also exists that the basin was geographically restricted from oceanic waters.
Guarding them were six or seven oceanic blacktip sharks, all bulging muscles and thick necks, making mock charges at us.
Beloussov refused to believe in the regular magnetic striping of the ocean floor about the oceanic ridges.
In addition oceanic overturn might have brought biologically toxic bottom waters to the surface during periods of climatic change.
It is uncertain whether coral reef ecosystems are oceanic sources or sinks of carbon dioxide.
The deepest waters are found in oceanic trenches, which plunge as deep as 35,000 feet below the ocean surface.
The buoyancy force was calculated from the potential energy difference between the overriding continental plate and the subducting oceanic plate.
After Clark and I returned home from our oceanic bonding session, we walked in the door to find the whole house in a dither.
The model, as advanced by Jeppsson, primarily relates to the generation of oceanic deep waters.
The acoustic facies of its substratum has neither the characteristics of the continental crust nor those of the oceanic crust.
The continental slope connects the continental shelf and the oceanic crust.
The two eastern forks of Long Island jut into oceanic waters, creating a mixing zone for currents and coastal and offshore migratory species.
Aside from oceanic islands and forest patches, oases may constitute interesting systems to study how regional processes affect local diversity.
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The hadal zone makes up only 1 or 2 percent of the ocean and is located in narrow oceanic trenches.
An estimated 5,000 types of oceanic fish are waiting to be discovered, project leaders said in a recent report.
Five river dolphin species and 34 oceanic species have been identified, including the orca and melon-headed and pilot whales.
They compare closely with oceanic flood basalts that make up many oceanic ridges, plateaux, and sea mounts.
The continental crust is not stratified like the oceanic crust and so does not have a characteristic seismic velocity structure.
Penguins are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere where they are oceanic or coastal denizens.
Despite inherent inefficiencies, jetting is the primary mode of locomotion for both primitive nautilus and powerful, migratory oceanic squids.
The outer shelf assemblage was primarily composed of oceanic pelagic taxa, such as carangids and scombrids, and mesopelagic taxa.
Lashing skeins of clear acrylic medium course through wiped grounds, in a family of pinks ranging from alizarin to rust, of oceanic vastness.
It's this sort of oceanic sonic force that propels the film to its conclusion.
The differences between them arise as a result of the differences in strength and density of oceanic and continental lithosphere.
This kind of event occurs on all the Canary Islands and other oceanic shield volcanoes.
This concurs with Calanus selection of oceanic winter habitats below depths where planktivorous fish can forage efficiently by sight.
Perhaps more surprising, fish farming could eventually exceed the oceanic fish catch.
All are oceanic in distribution and are commonly washed up after westerly gales.
Those higher prices could increase demand for oceanic fish and put added pressure on fisheries.
In this case sedimentation is dominated by an oceanic current, the south-westward flowing Agulhas Current that impinges on the shelf.
The East Australian current comes down that way and swings off the northern tip of Fraser, so the actual East Australian oceanic water is warmer than the colder inshore water.
He falls deep into oceanic silence, interrupted only by the sound of Adele, and you know what?
It is increasingly clear that major problems in testing the oceanic model rest in imprecisions of biostratigraphical correlation, particularly between different facies.
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Faunal and microfloral assemblages are also indicative of the oceanic state, and in this regard the conodonts have been the most intensively studied.
Hess's hypothesis on the serpentinite composition of the lower oceanic crust was confirmed by serpentinite and gabbroid fragments dredged from some fracture zones.
The magma contains components of the sediments and weathered oceanic crust from the Nazca plate as well as the peridotite in the mantle beneath South America.
I dreamed about Bali last night though as usual it was not the real Bali, more some sandy, watery oceanic island with elements of the South of France about it.
John Luther Adams lives up to the title of his composition, capturing an oceanic torrent of sound in an awe-inspiring performance.
Deep drilling in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea floor revealed a continental and oceanic substratum covered by upper Miocene and younger sedimentary successions.
Slices incorporate oceanic pelagic and hemipelagic lithologies such as chert, siliceous, calcareous and tuffaceous mudstone, limestone, and siliceous and calcareous shale.
Fast repetition rate fluorometry has been used successfully to investigate the variable fluorescence characteristics of cyanobacteria in oceanic Case 1 waters.
During icehouse periods the distribution of continents inhibited circum-equatorial circulation forcing faster oceanic circulation in the main ocean gyres.
The enormous oceanic whitetip that had scattered them eyed me curiously.
These igneous rocks record the extensive magmatism that resulted from northward subduction of Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere beneath the Lhasa terrane.
The drum family consists primarily of oceanic continental shelf fishes.
Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
I can almost hear an oceanic sigh of relief from members of the sandwich generation.
Western Ecuador consists of a complex tectonic melange of oceanic terranes accreted to the continental margin from Late Cretaceous to Eocene time.
The Kinik rocks have characteristics of ophiolites formed in oceanic or back-arc basins rather than island-arc settings based on a number of observations.
A southward depression of the treeline in favour of wet heaths, bogs and wetland tundra communities is also observed in northern oceanic environments.
The aim is to reduce the incidental catch of game fish like marlin while allowing stocks of swordfish, oceanic sharks, and tuna to replenish themselves.
Tasmania has one of the strangest flora in the world which flourishes in the moist, warm oceanic climate, producing a dense green temperate rainforest.
Moreover, the modeling took no account of the warming effects of the infusion of relatively warm air from oceanic and tropical areas to continental interiors.
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The collision was followed by rifting of the Cimmerian suture during Early Jurassic time to form a new oceanic basin between the Taurides-Anatolides and Eurasia.
These whales feed primarily but not exclusively on squid, with one species foraging in deep oceanic waters and the other over the continental shelf.
From further geological and oceanographical investigation, the positions and edges of the oceanic plates and the continents within them can be identified and also mapped.
The oceanic triggerfish is a species found only in the tropical Red Sea.
In contrast, oceanic island, oceanic plateau and seamount volcanism is distinctive in composition and eruptive style from the activity at plate margins.
The area outside the store was like that of some deep oceanic trench.
The air was humid and moist because of the oceanic breeze swelling up.
The destruction of oceanic crust occurs at subduction zones where oceanic crust is forced under either continental crust or oceanic crust.
Only a small portion of the oceanic crust produced in the Atlantic is subducted.
In this model, the seabed height is determined by the oceanic lithosphere temperature, due to thermal expansion.
A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.
The transition between the continental and oceanic lithosphere that was originally created by rifting is known as a passive margin.
This refers to whether a crustal boundary between oceanic lithosphere and continental lithosphere is a plate boundary or not.
While a weld between oceanic and continental lithosphere is called a passive margin, it is not an inactive margin.
Beneath passive margins the transition between the continental and oceanic crust is a broad transition known as transitional crust.
Transitional crust, separating true oceanic and continental crusts, is the foundation of any passive margin.
Passive margins of this type show a simple progression through the transitional crust, from normal continental to normal oceanic crusts.
A volcanic arc is formed on the continental plate, above the location of the downgoing oceanic slab.
When two plates with oceanic crust converge, they typically create an island arc as one plate is subducted below the other.
An oceanic trench is found where the denser plate is subducted underneath the other plate.
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However, due to its capacity for photosynthesis, the photic zone has the greatest biodiversity and biomass of all oceanic zones.
The final zone includes the deep oceanic trenches, and is known as the hadal zone.
This upwelling magma then cools and solidifies by conduction and convection of heat to form new oceanic crust.
The subduction process consumes older oceanic lithosphere, so oceanic crust is seldom more than 200 million years old.
Studies have shown that the slower the spreading rate, the rougher the new oceanic crust will be, and vice versa.
The greatest number of monoplacophorans are from the eastern Pacific Ocean along the oceanic trenches.
But with the constantly decreasing supply on land, many see oceanic mining as the destined future, and seamounts stand out as candidates.
The elements of an active oceanic basin often include the oceanic trench associated with a subduction zone.
The Atlantic ocean and the Arctic ocean are good examples of active, growing oceanic basins, whereas the Mediterranean Sea is shrinking.
The Pacific Ocean is also an active, shrinking oceanic basin, even though it has both spreading ridge and oceanic trenches.
The Aleutian Basin is another example of a relatively inactive oceanic basin.
Igneous oceanic plateaus have a ratio intermediate between continental and oceanic crust, although they are more mafic than felsic.
Very large oceanic volcanic constructions, hundreds of km across, are called oceanic plateaus.
In addition to oceanic tides, large lakes can experience small tides and even planets can experience atmospheric tides and Earth tides.
Similar to CFCs, SF6 is also an inert gas and is not affected by oceanic chemical or biological activities.
The North Atlantic Gyre, located in the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the five major oceanic gyres.
As they enter coastal waters, the animals essentially transform from a pelagic oceanic organism to a benthic continental organism.
The hotspot pairs include a large igneous province with continental volcanism opposite an oceanic hotspot.
The Pacific Ocean floor subducted under this oceanic crust between the continents.
Eruptions or emplacements of LIPs appear to have, in some cases, occurred simultaneously with oceanic anoxic events and extinction events.
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It is composed of continental flood basalts, oceanic flood basalts, and diffuse provinces.
Tortoises are aided in oceanic dispersal by their ability to float with their heads up, and to survive up to six months without food or water.
This was due to the prevailing direction of oceanic currents, rather than to a competition between North and South American forms.
The eastward Gibraltar Arc oceanic subduction system was active during the Early and Middle Miocene and has likely been inactive since.
The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America.
As the Atlantic Ocean widened, North America and South America were pushed westward, separated for a time by oceanic crust.
This is because the age of the oceanic lithosphere provides a major control on the depth of the ocean basins, and therefore on global sea level.
Around four fifths of oceanic debris is from rubbish blown onto the water from landfills, and urban runoff.
Marine pelagic fish can be divided into pelagic coastal fish and oceanic pelagic fish.
Mobile oceanic species such as tuna can be captured by travelling long distances in large fishing vessels.
Many large pelagic fish are oceanic nomadic species which undertake long offshore migrations.
There are 64 species of oceanic sharks and rays on the list, including hammerheads, giant devil rays and porbeagle.
Albatrosses are colonial, nesting for the most part on remote oceanic islands, often with several species nesting together.
The oceanic or limnological mixed layer is a layer in which active turbulence has homogenized some range of depths.
The depth of the mixed layer is thus very important for determining the temperature range in oceanic and coastal regions.
The resulting lack of dissolved oxygen greatly reduces the ability of these areas to sustain oceanic fauna.
Because there are no radar systems available for oceanic control, oceanic controllers provide ATC services using procedural control.
Controllers record information on flight progress strips and in specially developed oceanic computer systems as aircraft report positions.
Subfossils are often found in depositionary environments, such as lake sediments, oceanic sediments, and soils.
Microbats and toothed whales including oceanic dolphins vocalize both socially and in echolocation.
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Due to this varied topography and oceanic influence, a great variety of climatic zones exist.
By the 1490s a series of oceanic explorations marked the Age of Discovery, establishing direct links with Africa, the Americas, and Asia.
The Black Sea and Marmara coasts have a temperate oceanic climate, with cool foggy summers and much rainfall throughout the year.
Caravels were used by the Portuguese for the oceanic exploration voyages during the 15th and 16th centuries in the Age of Discovery.
Thus, leeward or windward siting is an important weather and climate factor on oceanic islands.
During Age of discovery, between the 15th and 17th century, sailing that had been mostly coastal became oceanic.
The Andes are the result of plate tectonics processes, caused by the subduction of oceanic crust beneath the South American Plate.
The region consists almost entirely of an uninterrupted chain of volcanic arcs and oceanic trenches, and experiences continual plate movement.
They may represent part of the oceanic crust and are believed to come from the Pacific Ocean realm.
The Pacific Plate, which makes up most of Oceania, is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Despite these protective measures, the reef remains under threat from oceanic pollution as well as uncontrolled tourism, shipping, and fishing.
Geophysically, Nicaragua is surrounded by the Caribbean Plate, an oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Cocos Plate.
The sequence of Tethyan marine sediments and their oceanic basement is sandwiched between rock derived from the African and European plates.
That is, the subducted lithosphere is always oceanic while the overriding lithosphere may or may not be oceanic.
Subduction zones exist at convergent plate boundaries where one plate of oceanic lithosphere converges with another plate.
It is at subduction zones that Earth's lithosphere, oceanic crust, sedimentary layers and some trapped water are recycled into the deep mantle.
Subducting plates can lead to orogeny by bringing oceanic islands, oceanic plateaus, and sediments to convergent margins.
Subduction may also cause orogeny without bringing in oceanic material that collides with the overriding continent.
Leeds has a climate that is oceanic, greatly influenced by the Atlantic and the Pennines.
Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.
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Physical and behavioural controls on the oceanic distribution and migration of leptocephali.
This article compares the use of oceanic symbolism in the poetry of Karin Boye, Ingrid Jonker and Sylvia Plath.
Anderson correctly points out that as we did not speciate the scombrids at Jerimalai we cannot be certain that oceanic species are represented.
The oceanic lithosphere in the area is directly related to the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and one of the oldest preserved on Earth.
The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish.
The climate of Scotland is temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable.
Like the rest of the UK, the island has an oceanic climate, but is somewhat milder and sunnier, which makes it a holiday destination.
For the first oceanic exploration Western Europeans used the compass, as well as progressive new advances in cartography and astronomy.
Extended months of rain and cloudy conditions are common in oceanic climates.
The development of oceanic shipping began to affect the entire Mediterranean.
English is spoken by communities on every continent and on oceanic islands in all the major oceans.
These expeditions were hoping to find an oceanic Northwest Passage to Asian trade.
North East England has an oceanic climate with narrower temperature ranges than further south in England.
Overall, Ireland has a mild but changeable oceanic climate with few extremes.
One of these is the oceanic climate seen in the Atlantic coastal region resulting in evenly temperatures with relatively cool summers.
The oceanic climate typically experiences cool winters with warmer summers and precipitation all year round, with more experienced in winter.
The oceanic climate is typified by cool winters with warmer summers and precipitation all year round, with more experienced in winter.
These include Humid subtropical climate, Mediterranean climate, oceanic, and Continental climate.
Many oceanic climates have frequent cloudy or overcast conditions due to the near constant storms and lows tracking over or near them.
Precipitation is both adequate and reliable throughout the year in oceanic climates.
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In most areas with an oceanic climate, precipitation comes in the form of rain for the majority of the year.
Outside of Australia and parts of New Zealand, most areas with an oceanic climate experience at least one snowstorm per year.
Overall temperature characteristics of the oceanic climates feature cool temperatures and infrequent extremes of temperature.
The Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic also has an oceanic climate.
The oceanic climate is prevalent in the more southerly locations of Oceania.
Areas with subpolar oceanic climates feature an oceanic climate but are usually located closer to polar regions.
As a result of their location, these regions tend to be on the cool end of oceanic climates.
Northern England has a cool, wet oceanic climate with small areas of subpolar oceanic climate in the uplands.
The Truro area has an oceanic climate similar to the remainder of Cornwall.
Being located on the south coast of England, Portsmouth has a mild oceanic climate, receiving more sunshine than most of the British Isles.
He theorised that as the land rose, oceanic islands sank, and coral reefs round them grew to form atolls.
Then we indicate some of the more pertinent characteristics of oceanic and continental lithospheres.
As with the rest of Ireland, Belfast has a temperate or oceanic climate, with a narrow range of temperatures and rainfall throughout the year.
The country is situated in between the oceanic Western European and the continental Eastern European climate.
Central and southern Germany are transition regions which vary from moderately oceanic to continental.
The climate is oceanic in the north and west and becomes gradually warmer and continental towards the south and east.
Simultaneously, the vast Tethyn oceanic crust, to its northeast, began to subduct under the Eurasian plate.
The archipelago has an oceanic climate, a complex geology, a rugged coastline and many low, rolling hills.
Shetland has an oceanic, temperate maritime climate bordering on the subpolar variety, with long but cool winters and short mild summers.
The influence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream create a mild oceanic climate.
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Most of the islands have a bedrock formed from ancient metamorphic rocks and the climate is mild and oceanic.
Rainfall was lower because of the decreases in oceanic and other evaporation.
Water is driven out of the oceanic lithosphere in subduction zones, and it causes melting in the overlying mantle.
Together these two island chains form the Hebrides, which experience a mild oceanic climate.
The influence of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Atlantic Current creates a mild oceanic climate.
On Earth, rifts can occur at all elevations, from the sea floor to plateaus and mountain ranges in continental crust or in oceanic crust.
The oceanic climate is found in isolated pockets in eastern Mexico and South America.
On one hand, the region, due to its long coastline, has a rich oceanic fauna, and some birds cannot be seen in other French regions.
A special case occurs for the highest point on an oceanic island or continent.
They are small toothed whales that are very closely related to oceanic dolphins.
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin.
They also feed on zooplankton, tiny animals found in oceanic surface waters, and small fish and fish larvae.
They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment.
In common with most of the rest of the United Kingdom, Chester has an oceanic climate.
The climate of Cork, like the rest of Ireland, is mild oceanic and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes.
A salinity maximum zone is formed, and both riverine and oceanic water flow close to the surface towards this zone.
In addition oceanic species do not preserve well, and are known mainly from photographs and from observers' notes.
The feeding mechanisms of the oceanic dinoflagellates remain unknown, although pseudopodial extensions were observed in Podolampas bipes.
It appears there were two distinct oceanic migrations from the mainland to Madagascar.
If oceanic conditions are unsuitable, seabirds will emigrate to more productive areas, sometimes permanently if the bird is young.
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The killer whale is one of 35 species in the oceanic dolphin family, which first appeared about 11 million years ago.
Carousel feeding has only been documented in the Norwegian killer whale population and with some oceanic dolphin species.
They have up to 92 vertebrae, more than any other species of oceanic dolphin.
They feed almost exclusively on neritic and oceanic squid, mostly nocturnally.
Most species inhabit coastal areas, though some travel offshore and feed in deep waters off oceanic islands.
The trend was partly caused by the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which significantly lowered oceanic water temperatures.
Subduction zones are places where two plates, usually an oceanic plate and a continental plate, collide.
In this case, the oceanic plate subducts, or submerges, under the continental plate, forming a deep ocean trench just offshore.
As a cultural construct, the concept of a continent may go beyond the continental shelf to include oceanic islands and continental fragments.
Another type of volcanic oceanic island occurs where an oceanic rift reaches the surface.
The islands rise from Jurassic oceanic crust associated with the opening of the Atlantic.
In most of the inland northern and central regions, the climate ranges from humid subtropical to humid continental and oceanic.
The last zone includes the deep oceanic trench, and is known as the hadalpelagic.
Lastly, the hadal zone corresponds to the hadalpelagic zone, which is found in oceanic trenches.
Thus, oceanic waters in polar regions have lower salinity content than oceanic waters in temperate and tropical regions.
The uplift of these islands is the result of the movement of oceanic tectonic plates.
During the first stage, the oceanic lithosphere subducted from NE to SW under the subcontinental crust.
Auks also tend to be restricted to continental shelf waters and breed on few oceanic islands.
For the Dutch merchant marine the North Sea served more as a starting point for their oceanic voyages.
Due to its location on the coast of the Channel, the climate of Le Havre is temperate oceanic.
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Various zones of subduction harbour and form the deepest and most majestic oceanic ridges, east of the Ionian Sea and south of the Aegean.
Caen has an oceanic climate that is slightly mildened due to its somewhat inland position.
Tectonic plates are composed of oceanic lithosphere and thicker continental lithosphere, each topped by its own kind of crust.
As explained above, tectonic plates may include continental crust or oceanic crust, and most plates contain both.
The distinction between oceanic crust and continental crust is based on their modes of formation.
Specifically, they did not see how continental rock could plow through the much denser rock that makes up oceanic crust.
They also found that the oceanic crust was much thinner than continental crust.
A profound consequence of seafloor spreading is that new crust was, and still is, being continually created along the oceanic ridges.
Apart from the high Arctic, the Antarctic and a few isolated oceanic islands, bats exist all over the world.
As the tectonic plates migrate, oceanic crust is subducted under the leading edges of the plates at convergent boundaries.
The combination of these processes recycles the oceanic crust back into the mantle.
In turn, oceanic waters are interspersed by many smaller seas, gulfs, and bays.
This does not, however, exclude other atmospheric and oceanic factors from contributing to anomalous warming.
When the continents separated and reformed themselves, it changed the flow of the oceanic currents and winds.
Atmospheric and oceanic currents stopped the transfer of warm, tropical air and water to the higher latitudes.
The Greenland Sea is densely inhabited by the organisms that form the base of the oceanic food chain.
The Caribbean Sea is an oceanic sea largely situated on the Caribbean Plate.
The buoyant melt rises as magma at a linear weakness in the oceanic crust, and emerges as lava, creating new crust upon cooling.
As the oceanic crust moves away from the ridge axis, the peridotite in the underlying mantle cools and becomes more rigid.
The crust and the relatively rigid peridotite below it make up the oceanic lithosphere.
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The orientations of the field in the oceanic crust preserve a record of directions of the Earth's magnetic field with time.
This bulge is thought to be caused by upward convective forces in the asthenosphere pushing the oceanic crust and lithosphere.
The western part of the transverse ridge consists of fragments of uplifted oceanic crust and upper mantle.
Divergent boundaries can create massive fault zones in the oceanic ridge system.
The northerly side is a boundary with the Caribbean Plate and the oceanic crust of the North American Plate.
It includes much of the continent of Africa, as well as oceanic crust which lies between the continent and various surrounding ocean ridges.
The active compressional deformation in this segment is an extremely rare example of compression between two oceanic litospheres.
When oceanic plates diverge, tensional stress causes fractures to occur in the lithosphere.
At this point basaltic oceanic crust begins to form between the separating continental fragments.
Older seafloor is therefore colder than new seafloor, and older oceanic basins deeper than new oceanic basins due to isostasy.
Water is carried mantle by deep sea fault zones which penetrate the oceanic plate as it bends into the subduction zone.
Age, growth and stock structure of the oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus, from the southwestern equatorial Atlantic.
Her findings showed the blue shark provided the most fins followed by the hammerhead shark, the silky shark and the oceanic whitetip shark.
Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust.
In both oceanic crust and ophiolites, the gabbro layer is underlain by the mantle, which extends thousands of kilometers down to Earth's core.
Rarely so personal, death was more often oceanic and everywhere.
Anything over that threatens the long-term survival of species like the oceanic white tip, porbeagle and several kinds of hammerheads.
High-definition broadcast quality b-roll of scalloped hammerheads, oceanic whitetips, porbeagles and spiny dogfish is available upon request.
Facies models in modern systems are well portrayed and clearly explained for shelves, ramps, atolls, isolated oceanic islands, and epeiric seas.
These waves occur in the ocean's interior and propagate horizontally, concentrating their energy around the oceanic pycnocline.

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