Google Maps Now Shows The Gulf Of America—Does That Matter?
The U.S. has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The question, though, is whether this is important ...
Google Maps now shows Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America for U.S. users
The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of ...
The Earth could get a new ocean and continent a lot sooner than we thought
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...
Scientists call off ocean geoengineering trial south of Martha’s Vineyard, turn to deep ocean basin instead
Scientists have withdrawn plans to conduct a controversial geoengineering experiment in ocean waters south of Martha’s ...
Record January heat suggests La Niña may be losing its ability to keep global warming in check
January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...
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New ocean is being born on Earth: It’s very close to America, but is “strange”
An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.
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Tectonic Basins
When rifting is successful, the new ocean basin gets wider and wider. New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart. The now fully ...
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What is the largest ocean on Earth? One holds more than half the free water on the planet.
From the Arctic to the Southern, the five ocean basins are home to thousands of marine life and millions of square miles of water. The smallest ocean basin on Earth is the Arctic Ocean ...
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Scientists Say a Sixth Ocean Is Forming as East Africa Splits Apart
Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...
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On the Physical Cause of the Ocean Basins
GEOLOGISTS have reason to thank Prof. Ball for directing their attention to the remarkable investigations of Mr. G. H. Darwin upon “The Precession of a Viscous Spheroid, and the Remote History ...
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Arctic Ocean Circulation: Going Around At the Top Of the World
The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...