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The Amazon Reef, or Amazonian Reef, [1] is an extensive coral and sponge reef system, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of French Guiana and northern Brazil. It is one of the largest known reef systems in the world, with scientists estimating its length at over 1,000 kilometres (600 miles), and its area as over 9,300 km 2 (3,600 sq mi).
Theoliitic dikes, sills, and lava flows from the CAMP eruption at 200 Ma have been found in West Africa, eastern North America, and northern South America. The extent of the volcanism has been estimated to 4.5 × 10 6 km 2 (1.7 × 10 6 sq mi) of which 2.5 × 10 6 km 2 (9.7 × 10 5 sq mi) covered what is now northern and central Brazil.
Pan-American countries by population, 2020. This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
Satellite image of the Big Island of Hawaii, the largest island in the United States. Scale depiction of the 5 largest islands in the US, with some other significant islands. This is a list of islands of the United States, as ordered by area. It includes most islands with an area greater than 20 square miles (approximately 52 km 2).
The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.
Paleontologists have found matching dinosaur footprints on different continents 3,700 miles — and an ocean — apart. ... The nebula is located 960 light-years away within a larger region of gas ...
Ocean – the four to seven largest named bodies of water in the World Ocean, all of which have "Ocean" in the name (see: Borders of the oceans for details). Sea has several definitions: [a] A division of an ocean, delineated by landforms, [6] currents (e.g., Sargasso Sea), or specific latitude or longitude boundaries. This includes but is not ...