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North Atlantic: 41,490,000 km 2 (16,020,000 sq mi), South Atlantic 40,270,000 km 2 (15,550,000 sq mi) Average depth: 3,646 m (11,962 ft) Max. depth: Puerto Rico Trench 8,376 m (27,480 ft) Water volume: 310,410,900 km 3 (74,471,500 cu mi) Shore length 1: 111,866 km (69,510 mi) including marginal seas: Islands: List of islands: Trenches
The opening of the North Atlantic Ocean is a geological event that has occurred over millions of years, during which the supercontinent Pangea broke up. As modern-day Europe (Eurasian plate) and North America (North American Plate) separated during the final breakup of Pangea in the early Cenozoic Era, they formed the North Atlantic ...
The Pacific Ocean meets the Atlantic Ocean south of South America at Cape Horn. The Atlantic Ocean, the second largest, extends from the Southern Ocean between the Americas, and Africa and Europe, to the Arctic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean south of Africa at Cape Agulhas.
In Atlantic Ocean: The North Atlantic. In the North Atlantic the trade winds maintain a fairly steady current from east to west, partly by the direct action of the wind and partly by maintaining an accumulation of warm water on the northern side of the current. A great bulk… Read More; physiography
L'Oscillazione Nord Atlantica è un pattern di circolazione atmosferica localizzato nell'Oceano Atlantico settentrionale e caratterizzato dalla fluttuazione ciclica della differenza di pressione al livello del mare tra l'Islanda e le Azzorre. Attraverso il moto di oscillazione est-ovest della depressione d'Islanda e dell'anticiclone ...
The North Atlantic Current is the first leg in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.
5 giorni fa · Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of Atlas.’. It is second in size to the Pacific Ocean.
