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Rivers carry a large amount of land material and pour it into the ocean through their mouths. The land material that enters the ocean with river water is mainly sediment. Rivers around the world carry 17 billion tons of sediment into the sea every year. In addition to sediment, there are also
What is the coast? In layman's terms, the coast is the part of the land that is adjacent to the sea. Furthermore, the coast is the narrow area of land above the coastline. In short, the coast is the most beautiful scenery between the land and the sea, which separates the
Peru is located on the southeast coast of the Pacific Ocean, with a coastline of more than 2,200 kilometers. The coast of Peru is a famous fishing ground in the world. In the 1950s, Peru's fishery output reached hundreds of thousands of tons. After 1962, the fishery developed even faster, wit
The Gulf Stream is the largest warm current in the world. It is formed by the convergence of the North Equatorial Current and the South Equatorial Current in the Atlantic Ocean that cross the equator. It originates in the Gulf of Mexico. The Atlantic tropical warm water that is constantly dri
There is a good line in ancient Chinese poetry: "The rain is about to come, and the wind fills the building." Wind and rain are like twin brothers, always walking together. So, where does the wind and rain on the earth come from? Different winds and rains have different c
On the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, there is a place called Tunisia. In the nearby Madia Sea area, 40 meters underwater, many marble columns were found buried in the mud. According to historians, they are cultural relics from 2,000 years ago. After the discovery was announced, Aus
Are there any hot springs under the sea now? What do hot springs under the sea look like? In the past 20 years, after repeated investigations by scientists, they have discovered that there are hot springs at the bottom of the ocean, but it is a pity that ordinary people cannot see them. Only
The continental shelf is a natural extension of the continent. The slope is generally small and there are not many fluctuations. The total area of the world's continental shelves is approximately more than 27 million square kilometers, with an average width of approximately 75 kilometers, acc
As early as 1620 AD, the Englishman Bacon had discovered that on the globe, the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa can be perfectly connected. By 1912, the German scientist Wegener proposed the hypothesis of continental drift based on certain similarities in the curved s
How were oceans formed? Where does seawater come from? At present, science cannot give a final answer to this question. This is because they are connected with another universal and equally unresolved problem of the origin of the solar system. Current
In the South Pacific, between Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides Islands, New Caledonia and the 30th parallel south, there is a colorful sea called the Coral Sea. The Coral Sea is connected to the Solomon Sea to the north and the Tasman Sea to the south. It cov
A bay in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, bordered partly by England and Scotland to the west, Norway, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France to the east, and from the Voorde Lighthouse on the French coast to the south across the Strait of Dover. It is bounded by th
A marginal sea in the western Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered to the west and south by Central and South America, and to the north and east by the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Its scope is defined as: starting from Catocut Point of the Yucatan Peninsula, going in a clockwise direction through
Located on the northern edge of the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by Alaska, Siberia and the Aleutian Islands. It is generally accepted that the northern boundary is the North Pole and the Chukchi Sea, but a more accurate northern boundary should be the narrowest mouth of the Bering Sea. The sout
A marginal sea in the western Pacific. It is bounded by Japan's three major islands (Kyushu, Honshu and Hokkaido) to the east; North Korea to the west and southwest; and the Soviet Union to the north and northwest. The Soya Strait is connected to the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast; it is connec
Going south from the East China Sea through the narrow Taiwan Strait, we enter the turbulent South China Sea. The South China Sea is the deepest and largest sea in my country and the third continental sea in the world after the Coral Sea and the Arabian Sea. The South China Sea is located at
Between northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, there is a bright red sea. This is the Red Sea. It is a subsidiary sea of the Indian Ocean. The Red Sea is like a crocodile with its mouth wide open, lying diagonally from northeast to southeast. It is about 2,000 kilometers long, with a maxi
Let us open the world map and we can see that there is a sea between Europe, Asia and Africa, which is the Mediterranean Sea. It is the largest intercontinental sea in the world. It is about 4,000 kilometers long from east to west, 1,800 kilometers wide from north to south, and covers an area