oceanic basin

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• Oceanic basin — Diagrammatic cross section of an ocean basin, showing the various geographic features Hydrologically, an oceanic basin may be anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater, but geologically ocean basins are large geologic basins that are below… …   Wikipedia

• Oceanic trench — Oceanic crust is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere is subducted back into the asthenosphere at trenches. The oceanic trenches are hemispheric scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. They are also the… …   Wikipedia

• Basin — may mean:* Drainage basin, hydrological basin or catchment basin, a region of land where water drains downhill into a specified body of water * Tarim Basin, located in Xinjiang, China and is one of the largest drainage basins in the world. *… …   Wikipedia

• Oceanic crust — Age of oceanic crust. The red is most recent, and blue is the oldest. Oceanic crust is the part of Earth s lithosphere that surfaces in the ocean basins. Oceanic crust is primarily composed of mafic rocks, or sima, which is rich in iron and… …   Wikipedia

• Oceanic plateau — An oceanic plateau (also submarine plateau) is a large, relatively flat submarine region that rises well above the level of the ambient seabed.[1] While many oceanic plateaus are composed of continental crust, and often form a step interrupting… …   Wikipedia

• Oceanic zone — Marine habitats The oceanic zone is the deep open ocean water that lies off the continental slopes Littoral zone Intertidal zone …   Wikipedia

• oceanic ridge — Continuous, submarine mountain chain extending approximately 50,000 mi (80,000 km) through all the world s oceans, separating them into distinct basins. The main ridge extends down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, passes between Africa and… …   Universalium

• List of Oceanic basins — The following is a list of oceanic basins:*Aleutian Basin *Agulhus Basin *Amerasian Basin, Arctic Ocean *Angola Basin *Arabian Basin *Argentine Basin *Bauer Basin *Blake Basin, Atlantic Ocean *Brazil Basin * Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean *Canary… …   Wikipedia

• North Polar Basin — For the region on Mars, see North Polar Basin (Mars). The North Polar Basin is an oceanic basin in the Arctic Ocean, consisting of two main parts, the Amerasian Basin (also Central Polar Basin) and the Eurasian Basin (also Norwegian Basin), which …   Wikipedia

• Tsushima Basin — Infobox East Asian title=Tsushima Basin caption=Tsushima Basin where the Sea of Japan meets the Korea Strait sort=japanese2 kanji=対馬海盆 hiragana=つしまかいぼん hepburn=Tsushima Kaibon japanesetext=Lang en|Tsushima Basin koreanname=South Korean name… …   Wikipedia

• Cape Verde Basin — ▪ basin, Atlantic Ocean Portuguese  Bacia Do Cabo Verde,         submarine depression in the Atlantic Ocean that rises to meet the submerged Mid Atlantic Ocean Ridge to the west and the western African coast to the east. With the contiguous… …   Universalium